Wilhelm Beck (draftsman)

Wilhelm Beck (also Willy or Willi ; Hungarian Vilmos ; born May 17, 1822 in Baja , Bács-Bodrog County , Austrian Empire ; died September 24, 1862 in Pest , Hungary) was an Austro-Hungarian draftsman .

Life

Viennese charivari. Cat music , October 26, 1848

Caricatures in Wiener Katzen-Musik , 1848

Wilhelm Beck was a younger brother of the writer Karl Isidor Beck . He grew up in Baja and Pest and then trained as a painter and draftsman in Vienna with Franz Eybl and Theodor Alconiere . In 1846 he published the illustrated joke paper Der Zeitgeist in Pest . He and Sigmund Engländer were the editors of the newspaper Wiener Katzen-Musik (Charivari) during the Revolution of 1848 , Beck drew the political caricatures in it. While he was sentenced to two months in prison by the press court at the end of 1848, Sigmund Engländer fled abroad. Even after his release from prison in January 1849, Beck was interned in Pest for a while.

Beck became an employee of the morning paper Der Eulenspiegel , he edited the magazine Laczikonyha and was an employee of joke papers and illustrated magazines published in Germany and Austria. He also wrote professional articles on economics. Beck also painted still lifes and wrote short stories.

literature

Beck, Wilhelm. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , p. 429.
Beck, Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 61.
Constantin von Wurzbach : Beck, Wilhelm . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, p. 367 ( digitized version ).
Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 84 (entry 637).
József Szinnyei : Magyar írók élete és munkái I. (Aachs – Bzenszki) . Budapest: Hornyánszky. 1891.
Peter Ujvári: Magyar zsidó lexicon . Szerk. Budapest, 1929
Karl Horschetzky: Memory of Willi Beck . Obituary in: Zsigmond Chorini (Ed.): Magyar Vidékiek lapja. Hungarian Foreign Gazette , Pest. No. 41, 1863 ÖNB

Publications

Viennese charivari. Cat music. Political day sheet for ridicule and seriousness with caricatures . Responsible Kapellmeister: Sigm. English people. Responsible Orchestra director: Willi Beck. Vienna: Stöckholzer von Hirschfeld, 1848, issue 1 (June 9th) - issue 108 (October 27th)

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Beck - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Wilhelm Beck in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Remarks

↑ Charivari: a mocking music, cat music; a derisively or ridicule serenade, a confused noise with kettles, pans etc. old before the house people who remarry ... . In: Johann Christian August Heyse : General verde lish forming and explanatory dictionary of foreign words ... . 13th edition, 1865, p. 159

personal data
SURNAME	Beck, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beck, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austro-Hungarian draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baja
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1862
Place of death	Plague (city)

[1] Charivari: a mocking music, cat music; a derisively or ridicule serenade, a confused noise with kettles, pans etc. old before the house people who remarry ... . In: Johann Christian August Heyse : General verde lish forming and explanatory dictionary of foreign words ... . 13th edition, 1865, p. 159