Richard Ernst Kepler

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Illustration to Heine's poem "You beautiful fisher girl"
First advent calendar “In the Land of the Christ Child”, 1903

Richard Ernst Kepler (born March 27, 1851 in Stuttgart ; † around 1930; also written Keppler ) was a popular German illustrator and painter .

Richard Ernst Kepler studied in Stuttgart , Munich and Vienna . Kepler was a prolific illustrator of children's and youth literature as well as anthologies , fairy tales and legends . He worked in Stuttgart and worked primarily for publishing companies in Stuttgart and southern Germany.

The graphic drafts for the first printed Advent calendar , which appeared in 1903 in the lithographic art printing company Reichhold & Lang in Munich (RLM) on small poems by Gerhard Lang , came from Kepler, who subsequently created numerous designs for Advent calendars for the publishing house.

literature

  • Hans Ries: Illustration and illustrators of books for children and young people in German-speaking countries 1871–1914. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-329-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Neureiter: Lexicon of ex-libris artists . 1st edition. Berlin: Pro BUSINESS, 2009, p. 229.
  2. ↑ Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde , J. Habbel, 1986, p. 51.
  3. ^ Klaus Mergenthaler: Advent calendar through the ages. Dettelbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-89754-279-2 , p. 12ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Kepler, Richard Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keppler, Richard Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH around 1930