Siegmund von Suchodolski

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Color lithograph around 1925
"Noble fur animal show"
(poster, 1930)
"The Bartered Bride"
(movie poster, 1932)

Siegmund von Suchodolski (* July 8, 1875 in Weimar ; † July 28, 1935 in Munich ; first name often written Sigmund or Zygmunt ) was a German commercial artist , architect and painter .

Life

Von Suchodolski, son of the painter Zdzisław Suchodolski and his wife Lisbeth von Bauer (* 1850), grandson of the Polish war painter January Suchodolski , great-nephew of the Polish poet Rajnold Suchodolski , studied architecture at the Munich School of Applied Arts and the Technical University of Munich .

As an architect he worked, among other things, as an employee of the architects Martin Dülfer and Theodor Fischer in Munich. From 1906 in particular he worked as a commercial and poster graphic artist in Munich, but also as an illustrator. It is especially in view of its animal pictures the naturalism attributed politically, however, the conservatism , because he especially after World War II political posters against Bolshevism for the Association for the Control of Bolshevism and anti- anarchism ( Out with you! ; Work, Protection against anarchy ; We do not tolerate anarchy. We will protect women and children ) designed. His Bismarck painting Our Fatherland is also known (reproduction in Der Türmer , 17th year, vol. II, 1914/15).

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  • Animal Pictures: A Coloring Book, 1914
  • Animal studies, Ravensburg 1914 (drawing templates based on artist originals I).
  • Soldier pictures from the war of nations: a children's coloring book, Ravensburg 1916.

He illustrated the following publications, among others:

  • Friedrich Gerstäcker : Adventure Stories. Four stories. Braunschweig 1911. (16 black text images and four color images).
  • German Schwänke. 1st edition, Vienna 1913; Another edition, Vienna, Leipzig 1921/1922 and 1929. Reprints in the 1980s by publishers Jugend & Volk, Vienna and Parkland, Stuttgart (76 mostly color images).
  • Willibald Alexis : Herr von Bredow's trousers. Braunschweig 1918; Another edition, 1925. (twelve black text images and four colored inset images).
  • various title pages for the zoo magazine Das Tier und wir of the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich.

Suchodolski painted and drew advertisements for the following companies: Ovaltine , Michael Huber Farben , Kronenbrauerei Donauwörth, Krämersche Kunstmühle, Hellabrunn Zoo, Deutsche Reichsbahn, Diamalt cough drops.

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personal data
SURNAME Suchodolski, Siegmund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist, architect and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1935
Place of death Munich