Ragnvald Blix
Ragnvald Blix (born September 12, 1882 in Christiania (later Oslo ), † May 2, 1958 in Copenhagen ) was a Norwegian cartoonist who worked, among other things, for the satirical magazine Simplicissimus .
Life
His father Elias Blix was a theologian and Norwegian church minister. Blix quickly gave up studying painting, preferring to draw caricatures. When his older friend Olaf Gulbransson moved to Germany in 1902, Blix followed him as a draftsman for the Tyrihans newspaper . An inheritance enabled him to travel across Europe in 1903. 1904-08 he stayed in Paris and worked, among other things, for the satirical magazine L'Assiette au Beurre . In 1907 his first drawing appeared in Simplicissimus and in 1908 Blix moved to Munich , where he lived until 1918. After a short stopover in Oslo, where he founded the magazine Exlex (outlawed) based on the model of Simplicissimus in February 1919 , he moved with it to Copenhagen just nine months later , where he continued his life. After two years, however, Blix had to give up the magazine again. From then on he worked for various Scandinavian newspapers and magazines. After the occupation of Denmark by Germany in World War II , Blix fled to Sweden, where he could continue to work. After the war he returned to Denmark.
plant
Between 1907 and 1925 Blix published 466 drawings in Simplicissimus. Two articles appeared in the Munich Youth . Blix was internationally active, published for example in the New York Times and in Swedish newspapers.
His drawings were initially characterized by a combination of line and surface, as is typical of Art Nouveau art . But as early as 1908 he took up Gulbransson's clear line drawing, which he was in no way inferior to in his ability to characterize contemporary politicians. In the 1930s there were vicious anti- Hitler caricatures and even in Swedish exile he was able to expose leading Nazi politicians under the pseudonym Stig Höök .
The title page with a Mona Lisa grinning at the viewer on The Smile of the Mona Lisa by Kurt Tucholsky , published in 1929 by Rowohlt Verlag in Berlin, comes from Blix.
Works by Blix can be found in the Düsseldorf City Museum and the Munich City Museum . The written estate is in the German Art Archive in Nuremberg.
literature
- Simplicissimus. A satirical magazine Munich 1896–1944 , catalog of the exhibition at Haus der Kunst Munich November 19, 1977 to January 15, 1978. Munich 1977.
- Ragnvald Blix. 1882-1958. Political cartoons . Exhibition catalog Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, 1986.
- Blix. Caricatures against war and fascism. Exhibition catalog Schloss Münster. Münster: Lit 1995. ISBN 3-8258-2717-8
Web links
- Ragnvald Blix on snl.no in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
- Ragnvald Blix on nbl.snl.no in Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian)
- Ragnvald Blix on nkl.snl.no in Norsk kunstnerleksikon (Norwegian)
- Publications by Ragnvald Blix at BIBSYS
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Herbst: Profiled. To the Marbach Tucholsky exhibition. In: Karl H. Pressler (Ed.): From the Antiquariat. Volume 8, 1990 (= Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel - Frankfurter Ausgabe. No. 70, August 31, 1990), pp. A 334 - A 340, here: pp. A 336 and A 339.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blix, Ragnvald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stig Höök (stage name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian caricaturist and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Christiania (later Oslo ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1958 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |