Thomas Theodor Heine
Thomas Theodor Heine (28 February 1867 – 26 January 1948) was a German painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Thomas Theodor Heine was born in Leipzig, Heine established himself as a gifted caricaturist at an early age, which led to him studying art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and, briefly, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1896, he became successful as an illustrator and political cartoonist for the satirical Munich magazine Simplicissimus, for which he appropriated the stylistic idiom of Jugendstil and the graphic qualities of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley and Japanese woodcuts.
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Thomas Theodor Heine
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- Name
- Thomas Theodor Heine
- Born
- 28 February 1867
- Birthplace
- Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony
- Died
- 26 January 1948
- Place of death
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Nationality
- Germany · Sweden · Germany
- Occupation
- caricaturist · painter · writer · sculptor · illustrator · graphic designer · designer · graphic artist · draftsperson
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The illustrated critiques of social orders, and the monarchy in particular, that he made for the magazine led to a six-month sentence of fortress confinement in 1898. He also began work as a book illustrator in the 1890s. He fled Germany in 1933, first to Prague. From 1938 until 1942 he lived in Oslo, and from 1942 until his death in 1948 he lived in Stockholm. He published a highly cynical autobiography in 1942 Ich warte auf Wunder (I Wait for Miracles). While I Wait for Miracles claims neither to be autobiographical nor a roman à clef, it was written in 1941 while Hitler was in power in Germany and the Second World War was ongoing. Despite the author's protestations, it is a novel based upon the events of the day, and in particular the events in Munich during the German revolution of 1918–1919, the Bavarian Soviet Republic, and the rise of National Socialism from 1920 to 1925. Hitler is unfavorably portrayed as the character named "Icarus", a soldier who first mesmerizes Munich audiences in the chapter entitled "The Mass Meeting". It also depicts with less accuracy the 14 September 1921 assault by Hitler on the separatist Otto Ballerstedt, which resulted in Hitler being convicted and sentenced to 100 days in jail.
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Place of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Berlin.
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• Name — Thomas Theodor Heine • Born — 28 February 1867 • Birthplace — Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony • Died — 26 January 1948 • Place of death — Stockholm, Sweden
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Thomas Theodor Heine appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names as an author, furniture designer, novelist, graphic artist, illustrator, painter, printmaker, sculptor, caricaturist, draughtsman, writer and book designer (28 February 1867 – 26 January 1948). Thomas Theodor Heine was born on 28 February 1867 in Leipzig and died on 26 January 1948 in Stockholm.
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• Illustration — Cover of Simplicissimus, 1910 • Illustration — Versailles treaty • Illustration — alt= Siegfried, oil on panel, 1921 • Illustration — What Does Hitler Look Like? A satirical gallery from the 28 May 1923 issue of Simplicissimus when there were no publicly available photographs. Click for details. • Illustration — F.D. Roosevelt struggles with the dragon of prohibition, 1932
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- 1.Bestandssignatur BR 0004 Nr. 1561 der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Blatt 515V, Schuljahr 1885, Bemerkung: verließ November 1886 wegen Differenzen mit seinen Mitschülern die Akademie und Blatt 558V Schuljahr 1886, Bemerkung: wurde im November 1886 für ein Jahr seines Betragens halber der Akademie verwiesen, in Vorbereitungsklasse A von Hugo Crola mit Betragen nicht tadelfrei und nicht gut.
- 2.Bestandssignatur BR 0004 Nr. 1561 der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Blatt 608V, Schuljahr 1887, Antiken- und Naturklasse von Peter Janssen, Bemerkung: fehlte wegen Krankheit lange Zeit
- 3.LeMO Biografie: Thomas Theodor Heine 1867–1948
- 4.Franz Schoenberner: Bekenntnisse eines Europäischen Intellektuellen. Band I. Kreisselmeier, Icking u.a 1946.
- 5.Adolf Leisen. Zum 125. Geburtstag des Malers – Purrmann und seine Freunde. Kunstportal Pfalz. 2005-04-10.
- 6.Gertraude Rentschler. Mathilde Purrmann geborene Vollmöller. 2011.
- 7.Thomas Raff: Vor 150 Jahren wurde Th. Th. Heine geboren. Ammerseekurier 31. März 2017.
- 8.In der Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus sowie im Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern haben sich originale Vorzeichnungen dieser Karikatur erhalten. Siehe Vom Zauber der Handbewegung. Eine Geschichte der Zeichnung im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Bestandskatalog der Graphischen Sammlung XVI, herausgegeben und kuratiert von Sören Fischer, mit Beiträgen von Alexander Bastek, Stephan Dahme, Karoline Feulner, Sören Fischer, Christine Follmann, Daniela Koch und Benjamin Rux, Ausst.-Kat. Kaiserslautern, Berlin 2022, S. 70–72.
- 9.kuenstlerbund.de: Ordentliche Mitglieder des Deutschen Künstlerbundes seit der Gründung 1903 / Heine, Thomas Theodor (abgerufen am 19. August 2015)
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