Willy Planck

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Willy Planck (born December 12, 1870 in Stuttgart , † 1956 in Herrenberg ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He is considered one of the most important and productive German book illustrators of the first half of the 20th century. Many of his illustrations were also used in the foreign language editions of the books, so that the artist also became known to the international audience.

Life

Planck came from the family of Nobel Prize winner Max Planck . He attended the Realgymnasium in Stuttgart up to the sixth grade and then, from 1885, the arts and crafts advanced training school. Between 1887 and 1890 he studied at the Stuttgart Art School with Albert Kappis , Jakob Grünenwald and Gustav Igler . From 1891–1896 he studied at the Karlsruhe Art School with Gustav Schönleber , Caspar Ritter , Claus Meyer and Leopold von Kalckreuth . From 1897 he worked in Stuttgart mainly as a portrait painter and illustrator . He also sometimes painted landscapes and genre pictures . He regularly spent the summers between 1895 and 1899 (with the exception of 1898) in Rottenburg am Neckar , so that he also created a number of landscape paintings and portraits there, and therefore with his paintings at the Second Rottenburg Painting Exhibition (May 30th to 20th July in the hermitage) 1914 participated.

Artistic creation

As a painter, Planck preferred figure and landscape pictures in a post-impressionist manner reminiscent of Swabian impressionism .

As a graphic artist, Planck initially created effective art nouveau works . He later developed an unmistakable style of his own, preferring pen drawing . His best-known book illustrations include the Heidi and Karl May volumes . The illustrations for the Karl May books were also used in the Dutch, Polish and Czech editions. Willy Planck illustrated a. a. the following books:

  • Fairy tales from the Arabian Nights , retold by Paul Benndorf, with pictures by Willy Planck, Loewes Verlag, Stuttgart 1948, 180 pages.
  • Gustav Schwab : Legends of Classical Antiquity. Edited by Emil Engelmann in free selection for the youth , with 3 colored pictures by A. Zick and 3 sound pictures by W. Planck. 36th edition, Loewes Verlag Stuttgart, around 1935, 216 pages.
  • James Fenimore Cooper : Lederstocking stories, edited for the youth by Oscar Höcker , with 50 text illustrations, 5 multi-colored and 5 two-colored pictures by Willy Planck, Loewes Verlag Stuttgart, around 1920, 376 pages.
  • Johanna Spyri : Gritli's children continue , 4th edition, Loewes Verlag, Stuttgart, 1940, approx. 260 pages.
  • Johanna Spyri: Heidi can use what she has learned , with color print and 20 text images by Willy Planck, Loewes Verlag Stuttgart, 1935, 140 pages.
  • Johanna Spyri: Homeless. Two stories for children and those who love children , with 35 pictures in the text by H. Susemihl and a colored cover picture by Willy Planck, Perthes Verlag Stuttgart, around 1920, 230 pages.
  • Emma Carl: Little stories , illustrations by Willy Planck, Loewes Verlag Stuttgart, around 1950, 32 pages.
  • Eleanor Estes: Jane the middle Moffat, story for the youth , with a cover picture and 25 text pictures by Willy Planck, Herold Verlag Stuttgart, around 1952, 200 pages.
  • Emil Frommel : From the lowest floor, an addition to the “Family Chronicle of a Spiritual Lord” , with eight pictures by Willy Planck, Steinkopf Verlag Stuttgart, 1923, 140 pages.
  • Suze la Chapelle-Roobol : Defiant head as a grandmother , with 8 audio images by Willy Planck, Gustav Weise Verlag Stuttgart, around 1910, 210 pages.
  • Friedrich J. Pajeken : Andrew Brown, the red spy , illustrations by Willy Planck, Loewes Verlag Stuttgart, 1950, 184 pages.
  • Friedrich J. Pajeken: A hero against his will, story from the west of North America , illustrations by Willy Planck, Meidinger's Jugendschriften Verlag Berlin, 1930, 240 pages.
  • Die Scalpjäger , illustrations by Willy Widmann, Loewes Verlag Stuttgart, 1951, 240 pages.
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett : The Little Lord, edited for the youth by Rudolf Reichhardt , with 2 color prints and 32 text images by Willy Planck, Loewes Verlag Stuttgart, around 1935, 192 pages.
  • Fritz Strauss : The glittering wave, a story from the forests of South America , with full pictures by Willy Planck, Loewes Verlag, Stuttgart, around 1925, 128 pages.

literature

  • Julius Baum : Stuttgart contemporary art. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1913, p. 300.
  • The Bayerland . Volume 27, 1916, p. 350 (with illustrations).
  • The mountain town. Breslau, Volume 17 (1928/29) Book I, p. 98 f. (with illustrations), 457.
  • The picture. Karlsruhe, Volume 9, 1939, pp. 113, 116 f. (with pictures).
  • Westermann's monthly books . 1950/51, issue 12, supplement, p. 100.
  • Stuttgart newspaper . December 12, 1955.
  • Planck, Willy . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933.
  • Planck, Willy . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 598 .
  • E. Benezit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. nouvelle ed., Volume 8, Gründ, 1976, p. 373.
  • Gert Ueding (Ed.): Karl May Handbook. 2nd expanded edition, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, p. 539.
  • Paul Pfisterer (Ed.): Monogram Lexicon. International directory of monograms by visual artists. de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, pp. 837, 999.
  • Manfred Neureiter: Lexicon of ex-libris artists. Pro Business, Berlin 2009, p. 348 (5th, expanded edition 2018).
  • John Castagno: Artists as illustrators: an international directory with signatures and monograms, 1800 - the present. Scarecrow Press, 1989, p. 439.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionary of Artists. Gründ, 2006, Volume 11, p. 85, doi: 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00142974 (English, beginning of the article).
  • General catalog of printed books. British Museum, Trustees of the British Museum, 1963, p. 16.
  • Chronicle of the city of Stuttgart. Klett, Stuttgart 1982, p. 736.
  • C. Schneider: Planck, Willy. In: K. Doderer (Hrsg.): Lexicon of children's and youth literature. Supplementary and register volume. Beltz, Weinheim / Basel, 1982, p. 452 f.
  • Leo Mülfarth: Small lexicon of Karlsruhe painters. Badenia, Karlsruhe 1987, p. 222.

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personal data
SURNAME Planck, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 1956
Place of death Herrenberg