Willy Hallstein

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Obituary by Willy Hallstein, published in JUGEND on June 1, 1923, vol. 28, issue 11, p. 334

Georg Wilhelm Hallstein (born September 23, 1887 in Darmstadt , † May 14, 1923 in Munich ) was a German caricaturist , etcher , draftsman and poster artist. From 1919 until his death in 1923 he worked regularly for the magazine Jugend , in which a total of 143 works by him were published during this period. He illustrated books for René Prévot and Ernst Hoferichter .

Life

Together with the writer and literary critic Franz Blei , he published a portfolio with etchings on Schwabing bohemian in 1922 . As a poster artist, he designed posters for the Krone Circus . As a typographer and commercial artist, he designed several title pages for sheet music by the composer Heinrich Kaspar Schmid . "Hallstein deserves to remain alive in the memory of posterity - his early death in the economically difficult time at the beginning of the 1920s, however, meant that he was wrongly forgotten."

  • The celluloid king, original drawing, published in Jugend on June 15, 1921, vol. 26, issue 19, p. 488a.

  • The lonely wife, original etching, published in Jugend on Dec. 9, 1919, vol. 24, issue 50, p. 1168.

  • Poster for Circus Krone around 1920

  • Typography for Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, 1921

literature

  • Eva Mertes: Willy Hallstein. A forgotten artist between Art Nouveau and Modernism. Franz Schön, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-981-35436-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Eva Mertes: Willy Hallstein - A forgotten artist between Art Nouveau and Modernism. Verlag Franz Schön, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-9813543-6-2 .
  2. ↑ Youth. Volume 28, Issue 11, p. 334.
  3. ^ René Prévot: Bohème. D. &. Bischoff, 1922.
  4. ↑ Ernst Hoferichter: The moonstruck lemonade lady and other suburban stories. Parcus, 1924.
  5. ^ Schwabing - 10 Intermezzi from the Munich Bohème by Willy Hallstein with a foreword by Franz Blei. Bavaria-Verlag, 1922.
  6. ^ Munich City Museum
  7. ^ Archives Musikverlag Schott Mainz
personal data
SURNAME Hallstein, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallstein, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German caricaturist, eraser, draftsman and poster artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1923
Place of death Munich