Biography
Posters, medals, postage stamps. Born 7 January 1890 in Munich. From 1908: studied at the Munich Kunstakademie: teachers included A. Jank and Franz von Stuck. From 1919: member of the Munich Sezession. By 1934: taught figurative drawing at the Staatschule für angewandte Kunst, Munich. October 1933: designed poster and float for the ‘Day of German Art’ (15 October). From 1936: director of the Akademie für angewandte Kunst, Munich. Designed Trophy for the 1935 Kiel Regatta, medal for the 1936 Winter Olympic Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen. 1937: painted Das Erwachen , shown in HDK exhibition; official poster for the ‘Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung’; bronze bust of Hitler for the Bugra-Messe, Leipzig, 1938. Designed postage stamps in early Thirties. 1939-41: designed panels in Albert Speer’s New Reich Chancellery, and posters for the National Party Congress. c1939-c1944: on art advisory committee (with Albert Speer) for the journal Die Kunst im Dritten Reich (later: Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich), and designed the cover. Died 1967 at Weissling, Upper Bavaria.
Writings about
- 1992, p. ? (1935 medal) ,
- Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, Munich, London, New Providence: K.G. Saur 1995- (from 1997: Munich only)., 1997
- 2006. ,
- ‘Nachklang zum Fest der Deutschen Kunst’, Die Kunst, 1933, pp. 79-85 (poster and float)
- ‘Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers. Zum 50. Geburtstag von Richard Klein’, Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich, Dec. 1939, pp. 396-9 ,
- ‘Plastik im Haus der Deutschen Kunst II’, Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich, Nov. 1941, pp. 321-9 ,
- 1956 ,
- Die Kunst im Dritten Reich, Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1976 ,
- The Nazification of Art, Winchester (UK): Winchester Press, 1990 and (eds.),
- 1991, p. 222 ,
- ‘Munich carnival posters’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., April 1930, pp. 57-64 ,
- Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leipzig: Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein., 1938, p. 77 (bust of Adolf Hitler by RK)