Wilmar Riegenring

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Wilmar Riegenring (born September 15, 1905 in Berlin ; † April 2, 1986 in Eggersdorf ) was a German caricaturist and illustrator .

life and work

After various activities, the mechanical engineer Riegenring worked as a press illustrator and caricaturist from 1930. During National Socialism , he illustrated popular science books such as Du and Electricity .

His collaboration with the physicist Wilhelm Westphal should be emphasized . Westphal's little book Physics of Everyday Life was published in 1940 by Frankfurter Societäts-Verlag and saw several editions. Wilmar Riegenring contributed 88 text illustrations to the paperback edition under the title Your Daily Physics .

After 1945 he drew caricatures ("Riegenringeleien") for the satirical magazines Frischer Wind and Eulenspiegel, such as the ink drawings Unter Brüdern (1954) and From Bank to Bank (1956). Between 1954 and 1984 he contributed a total of 211 drawings to Eulenspiegel . He also illustrated numerous children's books. Riegenring was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . He died in 1986 after a long and serious illness.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Riegenring, Wilmar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 67 .
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 771 .
  • Ullrich Kuhirt (Hrsg.): Art of the GDR . tape 1945-1959 . Seemann, Leipzig 1982, DNB  830387331 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b September 15, 1905 . In: Eulenspiegel. Weekly newspaper for satire and humor . 27./35. Vol., No. 37/80, ISSN 0423-5975 , p. 7.  
  2. ↑ a b c Obituary of the editors. In: Eulenspiegel. Weekly newspaper for satire and humor . 33./41. Vol., No. 16/86, ISSN  0423-5975 , p. 3.
  3. ^ Wilhelm H. Westphal: Your daily physics . Ullstein, Berlin-Tempelhof 1955 (181 pages).
  4. ↑ Eulenspiegel special edition. The years 1980–1989 . Berlin 2004, p. 209.
personal data
SURNAME Riegenring, Wilmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German caricaturist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1986
Place of death Eggersdorf