Rainer Bach

This article is about the German cartoonist. For the musician of the same name, see Rainer Bach (musician) .

Rainer Bach (born March 13, 1946 in Freital ; † December 31, 2019 ) was a German caricaturist , graphic artist , illustrator and cartoonist .

Life

Bach completed an apprenticeship as a poster painter; then he completed an evening course at the University of Fine Arts in Dresden. He then worked as a cinema painter and as a commercial artist for the trade organization (HO) . From 1980 he worked as a freelancer. Bach dedicated himself to “bizarre and poetic nonsense”.

Bach's caricatures and cartoons appeared in various journals and magazines, including Eulenspiegel and Freie Presse . In the Saxon daily newspaper he illustrated the popular science series "Onkel Max", which was also published in several volumes.

Often animals, mainly frogs, play a role in his works. His private collection of frogs includes more than 5,000 specimens: the smallest exhibit measures ten millimeters and is a piercing from Thailand, the largest is a two meter high plastic toad from Mexico. Rainer Bach bequeathed more than 1000 of his caricatures to the Satiricum in Greiz , where they are kept in the Summer Palace.

In 2015, a cartoon by Rainer Bach was on board the International Space Station ISS : The Russian cosmonaut Gennadi Padalka borrowed the drawing from Tassilo Römisch, the head of the private space museum in Mittweida, Saxony . In the drawing, Bach had put a frog in a space suit and put a Germany flag in his hand.

Bach fell ill with cancer in 2010, which he took "tumor-full". He lived in Chemnitz until his death.

Books (selection)

• Uncle Max: There is an answer to (almost) everything here . Chemnitzer Verlag , by Ute Krebs, 2003, ISBN 978-3-9286789-9-5
• Uncle Max - Special: Many cooks spoil the broth: interesting facts about eating and drinking . Chemnitzer Verlag , by Ute Krebs, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9370259-0-2
• Frog-cheeky love games: The frivolous comic for the tub . Edition Wannenbuch , 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815989-8-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gourmet gets tips from the star chef: the restaurant manager completes a kitchen seminar, cartoonist celebrates his 70th in the children's café and auctioneer gets ice-cold fingers. In: Free Press . January 15, 2016, archived from the original on March 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Mourning the Chemnitz artist: Rainer Bach is dead. In: TAG24 . January 1, 2020, accessed January 1, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Matthias Zwarg, Katharina Leuoth: “Not boring!” , In: Freie Presse from January 2, 2020
4. ↑ "Heiter bis Froschtig": The caricature exhibition in Greiz opens on Saturday. In: Wochenspiegel Saxony. February 13, 2015, archived from the original on January 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Rainer Bach greets with his caricatures “in old frogs”. In: Free Press. January 17, 2015, accessed January 1, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Frog Museum for Rainer. In: Saxon newspaper . August 21, 2003, archived from the original on August 10, 2016 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 . 
7. ↑ A. Mamelinka: You can also buy them for a few "toads": Chemnitzer shows cheeky frogs. In: Bild.de . April 20, 2012, archived from the original on January 5, 2016 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Christian Freund: Frogs are the trademark of the cartoonist Rainer Bach - they can be seen in the Greizer Summer Palace. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . February 16, 2015, accessed January 1, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Peggy Fritzsche: How a Chemnitz frog came into space. In: Free Press. November 14, 2015, archived from the original on January 6, 2016 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 .