Werner Graul

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Werner Graul (complete: Friedrich Hermann Werner Graul; born October 18, 1905 in Berlin , † June 18, 1984 in Krailling ) was a German writer , draftsman , graphic artist and medalist . He was close to ethnic circles and published anti-Christian drawings which, in the ethnic spirit, played off an idealized Germanism against Christianity .

Life

Graul was the son of Georg Graul and Pauline Graul, nee Schubert. In 1921 he was a student of Lucian Bernhard and Eugen Spiro at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin. In the 1920s he worked as a commercial artist in Berlin and designed primarily posters and advertisements for films until the 1930s . In 1926 he created the best-known film poster for Fritz Lang's film Metropolis , which was released in the cinema the following year and is one of the most important works in film history. On May 1, 1933, Graul became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 2,893,982) and political leader . Graul was the founder, editor and employee of the monthly magazine Sigrune: Journal for Nordic Art and German Belief (1933–1943) based in Erfurt , Sedanstr. 41.

In 1933 Graul moved to Mecklenburg and after the Second World War to Hamburg . He has been modeling medal designs since the 1950s and founded the Aureus Magnus company to implement them . According to his designs in Vienna and Hamburg until the early 1960s, medals in the shape and form of gold ducats were minted for the company . a. by Albrecht Dürer , Konrad Adenauer and John F. Kennedy .

Graul last lived in Munich and is buried in the forest cemetery there.

family

Graul married Margarete Berger on December 4, 1928 in Berlin (born October 4, 1908). The son Jürgen Graul and the daughter Mariane emerged from the marriage.

Works

  • Appeal: Germans who are deeply convinced of no longer professing a Christian denomination help in keeping and shaping a new worldview in their appropriate faith! Berlin-Charlottenburg 1934.
  • Werner Graul picture books . Rotadruck, Berlin 1936.
  • Golgotha ​​of the North . Wölund-Verlag, Erfurt 1937.
  • Witches, heretics, saints . Wölund-Verlag, Erfurt 1937 ( kunstmuseum-hamburg.de - with 14 wood engravings on the question of the forced conversion of the Germanic peoples to Christianity; reproduced as prints or postcards).
  • Dwarf Hüting shows Heiner the way: An introduction to the Nordic-Germanic worldview for children who believe in God . Verlag Sigrune, Erfurt 1939 (with 4 drawings by the author).
  • Medalist of the Aureus Magnus Ducat.

As an illustrator in the works of others

  • Konradin Aller: Moses unmasked: The miracles of Moses as air-electric processes . Rotadruck, Berlin 1936.
  • Karl JA Balikg: Who is blaspheming God? Sigrune Publishing House, 1938.

literature

  • Julian Stein (Ed.): Graul, film advertising, autographia . Berlin 1931.

source

  • Mortimer G. Davidson: Art in Germany 1933–1945: A scientific encyclopedia of art in the Third Reich . Volume II: Painting. Grabert Verlag, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 978-3-87847-096-0 , p. 302 .
  • Who's who in the world . 6th edition. tape 18 . Marquis Who's Who, Inc., 1982, ISBN 978-0-8379-1106-9 , pp. 440 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Berlin XII b, No. 3115/1905
  2. ↑ Death register StA III Munich, No. 1467/1984
  3. ↑ Günter Meissner (Ed.): General artist lexicon: The visual artists of all times and peoples . tape 61 : Gray Santos - Gruyere. KG Saur Verlag, Munich, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23028-8 , p. 11 .
  4. ^ Matthias Mende: Dürer medals: coins, medals, plaques from Dürer, on Dürer, after Dürer . Ed .: Nuremberg City History Museums and Albrecht Dürerhaus Foundation. Verlag H. Carl, 1983, p. 523 .
  5. ↑ Directory in George S. Cuhaj, Thomas Michael (Ed.): Unusual World Coins . 6th edition. Krause Publications, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4402-1722-7 .
  6. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries . BUCH & media, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-911-1 , pp. 227 .
  7. ^ Karlheinz Weissmann: Werner Graul (1905-1984). Archived from the original on January 3, 2012 ; Retrieved December 7, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Graul, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graul, Friedrich Hermann Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, draftsman, graphic artist and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1984
Place of death Krailling