Carl August Reinhardt (also referred to as Karl Reinhardt; born 25. April 1818 in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...

; died 11. August 1877 in Radebeul,

) was a German author, painter, graphic artist, and caricaturist.

Life

Reinhardt studied art in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

, and

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

, under the tutelage of

Johan Christian Dahl Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (24 February 178814 October 1857), often known as or , was a Danish- Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting, and, by som ...

and

Albert Zimmermann August Albert Zimmermann (born Zittau, September 20, 1808 - died Munich, October 18, 1888) was a German painter. He was the brother of painters Max, Richard, and Robert Zimmermann, and served as Max's teacher. He was primarily self-taught a ...

, among others. During the 1840s and 1850s, he lived a bohemian wandering life as a landscape painter, author, and caricaturist. During this time, he contributed to the well-known magazines ''

Kladderadatsch ''Kladderadatsch'' (onomatopoeic for "Crash") was a satirical German-language magazine first published in Berlin on 7 May 1848. It appeared weekly or as the ''Kladderadatsch'' put it: "daily, except for weekdays." It was founded by Albert Hofmann ...

'', ''

Die Gartenlaube ''Die Gartenlaube – Illustriertes Familienblatt'' (; ) was the first successful mass-circulation German newspaper and a forerunner of all modern magazines.Sylvia Palatschek: ''Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries'' (Oxford: ...

'', and ''Illustrirte Zeitung''. In 1848, Reinhardt contributed to the ''

Fliegende Blätter The ' ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") was a German weekly humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Co ...

'', in an issue titled "Meister Lapp and his apprentice Pips." The original issue was incomplete, and a complete version appeared in an 1851 book version published by Braun & Schneider. Reinhardt helped pioneer the

comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

genre in ''Deutscher Bilderbogen für Jung und Alt'', which was inspired by the Munich ''Bilderbogen''. Reinhardt made his living illustrating books. Some of his best-known lithographs appear in volumes 2-4 of ''To America!'' by

Friedrich Gerstäcker Friedrich Gerstäcker (May 10, 1816 in Hamburg – May 31, 1872 in Braunschweig) was a German traveler and novelist. Biography He was the son of Friedrich Gerstäcker (1790–1825), a celebrated opera singer. After being apprenticed to a comm ...

, published in 1855. By the 1860s, Reinhardt had made a name for himself, but years of hard living had taken a toll on his health. Ill and still poor, he moved to

and tried his hand at being an author, playwright, and journal editor (''Der Calculator an der Elbe''). In 1877, he opened an eponymous tavern in Radebeul. The tavern survived Reinhardt's death, known under the abbreviated name "Zum Calculator."

Work

;Monographs * ''Der fünfte May''. Wigand, Leipzig 1866-1868. * ''Von Hamburg nach Helgoland''. Broschek, Hamburg 1959. * ''Schultze und Müller auf der Weltausstellung in Paris''. Schäfers, Leipzig 1867 * ''Sprechende Tiere''. 1854., reprint Glassbrenner, Adolf. Carlsen, Kopenhagen 1966 * ''TIN-THE-HOHN-TSE. Naturgeschichte der weissen Sclaven''. Bruchmann, Stuttgart 1878 ;Fliegende Blätter * 172 (1848): ''Meister Lapp und sein Lehrjunge Pips'' ;''Deutsche Bilderbogen'' * Nr. 7: ''Lob der edlen Musica'' * Nr. 8: ''Grad aus dem Wirthshaus'' * Nr. 39: ''Der Hase in der Stadt'' * Nr. 52: ''Eine Morithat'' * Nr. 96: ''Ein Sonntagsvergnügen'' * Nr. 137: ''Der Bauer in der Stadt'' * Nr. 156: ''Im schwarzen Wallfisch zu Askalon'' * Nr. 165: ''Ein harter Vater''

References

* Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: ''Die Bildgeschichten des Carl August Reinhardt''. In: Eckart Sackmann u.a. (Hrsg.): ''Deutsche Comicforschung 2''. Edition Sackmann & Hörndl, Hildesheim 2005, . *

External links

* * *
Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reinhardt, Carl 1818 births 1877 deaths German comics artists German caricaturists German illustrators German male painters 19th-century German dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German male writers 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German landscape painters