Carl August Reinhardt (also referred to as Karl Reinhardt; born 25. April 1818 in Leipzig, Germany; died 11. August 1877 in Radebeul, Germany) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and caricaturist.
Life
Reinhardt studied art in Leipzig, Dresden, and Munich, under the tutelage of Johan Christian Dahl and Albert Zimmermann, 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, Die Gartenlaube, and Illustrirte Zeitung.
In 1848, Reinhardt contributed to the Fliegende Blätter, 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 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, 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 Dresden 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.