Julius Klinger

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Austrian painter (1876–1942)

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Field	Value
name	Julius Klinger
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birth_place	Dornbach, Austria-Hungary
death_date
death_place	Maly Trostenets, Reichskommissariat Ostland
field	Poster artist, painter, illustrator, lithographer, designer
movement	Deutscher Werkbund
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Career

Early works in Vienna and Munich

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Klinger was born in Dornbach near Vienna. In 1895, he found his first employment with the Vienna fashion magazine Wiener Mode. Here he made acquaintance with Koloman Moser, who later would be his teacher; Moser recommended him to the Meggendorfer-Blätter.

1896 saw him moving to Munich where he worked as an illustrator for the Meggendorfer-Blätter and others. From 1897 to 1902 he was a collaborator to the eponymous Jugendstil magazine Die Jugend.

Berlin

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In 1897 he relocated to Berlin, where he worked extensively as a commercial graphic artist until 1915. Together with the printing house Hollerbaum und Schmidt, he developed a new fashion of functional poster design that soon gained him international reputation. In 1912 he designed the poster for the Rund um Berlin air show in Johannisthal. In Berlin he also contributed to Das kleine Witzblatt, Lustige Blätter and Das Narrenschiff humorous magazines.

Advertising campaign for the "Tabu" company

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Beginning in 1918, Klinger designed a comprehensive and noted campaign promoting the "Tabu" company's cigarette rolling paper, that was advertised all over Vienna in 1918/19. Klinger devised a promotional strategy, spanning from small-sized newspaper advertisements to billboards and painted firewalls – construction site fences and winterized fountain paneling were used as advertising space, too.

Nazi persecution

Klinger was persecuted by the National Socialists because he was Jewish. According to Viennese police records, he and his wife Emilie were registered as "Moved to Minsk" on 2 June 1942. This designation was synonymous during the Nazi era with deportation. Large numbers of Viennese Jews were murdered at the Maly Trostenets extermination camp near Minsk. It is presumed that Julius and Emilie suffered this fate in 1942 or soon after.[[Image:Straßenschild Klingerstraße (Wien).jpg|thumb|upright=0.65|right|Street sign, Vienna]]

Klinger's final poster was designed towards the end of 1937 for the Ankerbrot-Werke factory. The Jewish-owned company was transferred to "Aryan" proprietors in 1938; after 1945 legitimate ownership was restored.

In 1982, Klingerstraße in Vienna-Liesing was named after him.

Literature

Anita Kühnel: Julius Klinger – Bilderheft der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Catalogue of the Berlin State Museums), Gebr. Mann, Berlin, 1999

Gallery

Image:Julius Klinger-Poster Tabu, 1919.JPG| Image:Julius Klinger WWI poster.jpg| Image:Klinger-Johannisthal-1908.jpg| Image:Julius Klinger - Hermanns & Froitzheim - Google Art Project.jpg| Image:Klinger-Tabu-1919.JPG|Poster for "Tabu" cigarette paper (1919) Image:Julius Klinger-Elida-1921.jpg|Poster for "Elida" toilet soap (1921) Image:Julius Klinger - Wiener Messe, 1922.JPG| Image:Klinger-M. E. Mayer Rasierklingen.JPG| Image:Klinger-Parfümeriefabrik Pessl, 1923.JPG|Poster of the Viennese perfume company Pessl (1923) Image:Constancy - Julius Klinger.jpg|

Notes

References

[http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.k/k464961.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en Austrian AEIOU Encyclopedia]
[http://www2.onb.ac.at/siteseeing/flu/schaetze_neu/schaetze-kuenstler.htm Julius Klinger (Wien 22. 5. 1976-1942?)] {{webarchive. link. (2008-09-18 , biographical entry with the [[Austrian National Library]])
David Ciarlo. (2011). "Advertising Empire". Harvard University Press.
[http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/plakate/archiv/erwerb/objekt_juni_2003.htm Plakat: Julius Klinger: Tabu, 1919] {{webarchive. link. (2004-08-23 , [[Austrian National Library]], 2003)

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