Walter Trier

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Walter Trier

Walter Trier (born June 25, 1890 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † July 8, 1951 in Craigleith near Collingwood , Ontario , Canada ) was a draftsman and illustrator.

Life

Walter Trier was the child of a German-speaking, Jewish middle-class family. He studied first in Prague and later in Munich . He worked for the Simplicissimus , the youth and the Lustige Blätter , drew for the Ullstein publishing house since 1910, for example for the Berliner Illustrierte , the Uhu and Die Dame . During the First World War he drew a series of propagandistic caricatures against Great Britain and the other Entente members for the war numbers of the Lustige Blätter , Berlin.

Walter Trier was also an advertising artist, created cartoons, sets and costumes. The children's playroom on the steamer Bremen also came from Walter Trier. 1919–1920 he published caricatures for the illustrated film week .

The already very successful and globally respected Trier became famous for a long time through his illustrations for children's books by Erich Kästner . In 1929 the publisher Edith Jacobsohn introduced him to Erich Kästner and so in the same year he became the illustrator of the first children's book by Erich Kästner, Emil und die Detektiven , and contributed a lot to Kästner's success as a children's book author. For several years the two artists had a close collaboration and friendship.

From 1927 he made several cover designs for the Piper Verlag series What is not in the “Baedeker”, which was published until the end of the 1930s , followed by what is not in the dictionary from 1934 with six Trier bindings in the same manner. The illustrations of the well-known story for young and old Klapzubova jedáctka (German: Klapperzahns Wunderelf) also came from Trier, who in 1929 admitted to being a football enthusiast and was part of the Berlin artist sports club Oase . Around 1930 he drew caricatures of well-known German athletes (e.g. Max Schmeling , Otto Schmidt , Inge and Ellen Braumüller ) for a collector's picture album for “Haus Bergmann” Zigarettenfabrik AG .

After the transfer of power to the Nazis in 1933, the illustrations for Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were his last work on the European mainland, after which Walter Trier emigrated to London at the end of 1936 , where he drew for the satirical magazine Liliput and the illustrated Picture Post . Political drawings on the Lidice massacre and the attack on Heydrich appeared in the British weekly newspaper Die Zeitung . In 1944, in collaboration with the Czech caricaturist Adolf Hoffmeister , he published the collection of Jester's political caricatures in Earnest . He also contributed illustrations to children's books and published his own volumes and play books.

After the end of the war, Walter Trier emigrated to his daughter in Canada in 1947 , where he continued his drawing work, as a commercial artist and as an illustrator for Kästner's books. He lived in Collingwood with his wife .

Walt Disney offered him a job as an animator, but Trier declined because he did not want to work under a foreign company logo.

Trier usually signed his works in the lower right corner with his last name in block letters.

Exhibitions

  • Salon der Lustige Blätter - exhibition of original drawings by the employees of the joke "Funny Leaves" - September 20 to October 20, 1910 - Berlin - Hohenzollern Kunstgewerbehaus - Trier represented with 15 works
  • Great Berlin art exhibition 1911 - April 29 to October 1, 1911 - Berlin - Academy of the Arts - Trier represented with a work
  • Exhibition Berlin stage designers - June 1 to July 31, 1926 - Berlin - organized by the Neue Kunsthandlung - Trier represented with 21 works
  • 51st exhibition of the Berlin Secession - Autumn Exhibition 1926 - October 23 to December 15, 1926 - Berlin - Berlin Secession - Trier represented with a work
  • 53rd exhibition of the Berlin Secession - February 25 to April 30, 1928 - Berlin - Berlin Secession - Trier represented with two works
  • 58th exhibition of the Berlin Secession - autumn exhibition 1929 - autumn 1929 - Berlin - Berlin Secession - Trier represented with three works
  • Berlin Humor - Trier / Simmel / Zille - February to March 1929 - Berlin - Moderne Galerie Wertheim - Trier represented with 122 works
  • Walter Trier - November 1934 - Prague - Gallery André - solo exhibition (extent unknown)
  • Exhibition of 20th Century German Art - June 8 to August 27, 1938 - London - New Burlington Galleries - Trier represented with works (extent unknown)
  • Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists - Under the auspices of the British Council - May 6th to May 30th 1942 - London - RBA Galleries - Trier represented with one work
  • Cartoons by ZK, Hoffmeister, Pelc, Stephen, Trier - September to October 1943 - London - The Czechoslovak Institute - Trier represented with works (extent unknown)
  • Cartoons to Caricatures: Joss, Ross, Sallon, Walter Trier, Vicky, Victoria, Mark Wayner - April 19 to May 12, 1950 - London - Ben Uri Art Gallery - Trier represented with works (extent unknown)
  • “There I am again” - Walter Trier - The Berlin Years - January 22nd to February 28th 1999 - Berlin - Art Library SMPK
  • Humorist Walter Trier - Selections from the Trier-Fodor Foundation Gift - March 22 to May 25, 1980 - Toronto - Art Gallery of Ontario - Trier represented with 123 works
  • Walter Trier: Children's book illustrations from the Kurt L. Maschler collection, London - June 16 to July 5, 1983 - Munich - International Youth Library
  • Walter Trier. Politics. Art. Advertisement - June 11th to September 3rd, 2006 - Hanover - Wilhelm Busch Museum

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Book illustrations

  • Felix Schloemp - Walter Trier: jokes and rags. The funniest Moritaten and show ballades - Georg Müller Verlag Munich and Leipzig 1913
  • Erich Kästner's children's books illustrated by Walter Trier can be found at the Erich Kästner Society with illustrations of the covers .
  • Erich Kästner - Walter Trier: Till Eulenspiegel - Atrium Verlag Zürich 1999 (first published in 1938 by Atrium Verlag Zürich)
  • Harry Rowohlt - Walter Trier: The funny steamer . Cecilie Dressler, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7915-1675-2

Illustrations in magazines and newspapers

Movies

  • A day of the Reich President - cartoon (lost) - drawings by Walter Trier - 1919 - Berlin
  • Big international boxing match - Trier's trick film - cartoon about 7 minutes (lost) - drawings by Walter Trier - 1920 - Projektions AG Union - Berlin
  • Film stars - Part 1 - Cartoon about 6 minutes (lost) - Drawings by Walter Trier - 1920 - Projektions AG Union - Berlin
  • Film stars - part 2 - cartoon about 6 minutes (lost) - drawings by Walter Trier - 1920 - Projektions AG Union - Berlin
  • The market of Titipu - cartoon about 5 minutes (lost) - drawings by Walter Trier - 1921 - Projektions AG Union - Berlin
  • Beauty evening - Trier's trick film - cartoon about 5 minutes (lost) - drawings by Walter Trier - 1921 - Projektions AG Union - Berlin
  • The evil spirit Lumpaci Vagabundus - silent film (buildings and figurines by Walter Trier) - 1922 - Carl Wilhelm-Film GmbH - Berlin
  • Eight painters and a model - documentary (lost) - 1927 - Universum-Film AG (Ufa) - Berlin
  • My heart is a jazz band - silent film (costumes by Walter Trier) - 1928 - Efzet-Film GmbH - Berlin

Stage decorations and costumes

  • For you - revue in 2 acts with 20 pictures - by Erik Charell - music and lyrics by Ralph Benatzky - 1925 - Berlin - Großes Schauspielhaus - stage and curtain designs for the 11th picture "Alpensymphonie" by Walter Trier

Other work

  • together with Ebi Naumann: Crazy People. A folding book to and fro, Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-7915-1426-0

literature

  • Antje Neuner-Warthorst: Walter Trier. A picture book career. Nicolai, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89479-812-3 .
  • Antje Neuner-Warthorst: "Meschuggenes" by Walter Trier. In: Eckart Sackmann (Ed.): Deutsche Comicforschung 2008. Comicplus, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-89474-177-8 , pp. 48–61.
  • Antje Neuner-Warthorst (Ed.): Walter Trier. Politics, art, advertising. (Exhibition catalog of the Trier retrospective in the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover) Atrium Verlag , Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-85535-993-8 .
  • Zlata Fuss Phillips: German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile, 1933–1950. Biographies and Bibliographies . Munich: Saur, 2001, ISBN 3-598-11569-5 , pp. 239–248

Web links

Commons : Walter Trier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Christoph Haacker in Walter Trier , biographies in Klapperzahns Wunderelf , Arco Verlag , Wuppertal 2007, 2nd edition, pp. 166–169
  2. ↑ Patrick Rössler: The stargazer. Walter Trier and the “Illustrierte Filmwoche” 1919/20 , in: From the Antiquariat NF 14 No. 1 (2016), pp. 18–21.
  3. ↑ Walter Trier's biography on walter-trier.de
  4. ↑ The funny steamer , perlentaucher.de, accessed on July 7, 2013
  5. ↑ Jeanpaul Goergen: So far ignored by film history - the draftsman Walter Trier created the first cabaret films in 1919 - nasty about Ebert. in: Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, January 20, 1991
personal data
SURNAME Trier, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1951
Place of death Craigleith near Collingwood , Canada