Hellmut Eichrodt (27 February 1872,
Bruchsal
Bruchsal (; orig. Bruohselle, Bruaselle, historically known in English as Bruxhall; South Franconian: ''Brusel'') is a city at the western edge of the Kraichgau, approximately 20 km northeast of Karlsruhe in the state of Baden-Württemberg, ...
- 31 July 1943,
Karlsruhe) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Biography
Hellmut Eichrodt, younger brother of
Otto Eichrodt, studied from 1890 to 1903 at the Karlsruher Kunstakademie and was apprenticed with
Hans Thoma
Hans Thoma (2 October 1839 – 7 November 1924) was a German painter.
Biography
Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany. He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of ...
and
Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth
:'
Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalkreuth (15 May 1855 – 1 December 1928) was a German painter, known for portraits and landscapes.
Biography
A direct descendant of field-marshal Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth, Leopold was born at Düsse ...
. From 1897 to 1912 he worked at the magazine ''
Jugend'', and for
Simplicissimus
:''Simplicissimus is also a name for the 1668 novel Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, Simplicius Simplicissimus and its protagonist.''
''Simplicissimus'' () was a satire, satirical German language, German weekly magazine, headquartered in Munich ...
. Besides his graphic art, he painted murals in churches and other public buildings, including one for the mausoleum in
Addis Abeba
Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...
of Ethiopian emperor
Menelik II, and multiple murals in the Karlsruher
Christuskirche.
In the holdings of the Karlsruher Kunsthalle are two women's portraits by Eichrodt. Because of his collaboration with the
Kunstdruckerei Künstlerbund Karlsruhe he received a number of commissions for advertisements, and designed posters for a number of companies including
Brauerei Ketterer,
Kast & Ehinger,
Badische Feuerversicherungsbank, and the
Norddeutscher Lloyd. For
Friedrich Dreser he created collections of images, ''Der Froschkönig'', ''Der Soldat'' (1908) and ''Die sieben Raben'' (1909). He signed his collection with "H-E". In 1918 he illustrated the call to the soldiers of the
Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden (german: Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918.
It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subs ...
to lay down their arms and return home.
[Aufruf der vorläufigen Volksregierung an die badischen Soldaten, 16. November 1918 (Staatsarchiv Freiburg, W 110/1 Nr. 108)]
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Literature
* ''Eichrodt, Hellmuth'' in Thieme-Becker: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Bd. 13 (E)'', together with Hans Vollmer (ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts. Zweiter Band (E bis J)'', , E. A. Seemann (CD-ROM), Leipzig 2008. .
References
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1872 births
1943 deaths