Helmuth Ellgaard

Helmuth Ellgaard ( born March 3, 1913 in Haderslev, Denmark today, † April 22, 1980 in Kiel ) was a German press cartoonist and illustrator. Ellgaard was known for his numerous film posters he created 1954-1961.

Life and work

Helmuth Ellgaard was born in what was then German Hadersleben. The parents belonged to the German minority in the city. Early on Ellgaard interested for drawing and painting. 1928 the family moved to Kiel. 1934 Ellgaard visited the College of Art and Design in Kiel and moonlighted as a stage designer at the Kiel Municipal Theatre and as a press artist for the " Kieler Latest News ". His artistic role model was Theo Matejko.

1939 Ellgaard went to Berlin where he married actress Lotte Berger. A son, Peter Helmuth Ellgaards work, was born in 1940, another, Holger, 1943. Appeared among others in the "Berliner Zeitung Illustrirten " at the German publishing house ( the Ullstein during the Nazi era ). 1940 Carl- Schnebel Prize he was awarded for "outstanding illustrative and press graphic performance," in which he called the " Greater German fateful struggle " under the heading Warning Tiefflieger represented ( title page of the siren No. 11/ 1940).

During the Second World War he was an official war correspondent in a propaganda company and followed as a second lieutenant in the Air Force in many missions with his sketchpad. During the years 1945-1948 Ellgaard illustrated, among others, the youth magazine " Into the new life " of Minerva Publishing House in West Berlin and the "New Berlin Illustrated ", which appeared in East Berlin at the Allgemeiner Deutscher Verlag, as well as some books, such as " adventure with the movie camera " Paul Lieberenz.

Helmuth Ellgaard and his family left Berlin in 1949 to move to the Upper Bavarian Bad Tölz. He was instrumental in the first Hung the illustrated magazine "Revue ", so he helped Helmut Kindler with a " hand-made " zero number to obtain the necessary license for the publication of the magazine with the Allies. 1952 the family moved to Munich. In the "Revue " he worked as a picture editor and a press artist or illustrator to 1956. In almost every number of the "Revue " Illustrations by Helmuth Ellgaard were seen and many of these works were in the style of retro - futurism.

After 1956 Ellgaard worked as a freelance press cartoonist and illustrator, now living in Hamburg. Major clients have included the film industry, for which he designed numerous posters, as well as magazines and book publishers, for example, the movie poster for "The Bridge " from 1959, illustrations for serial novel, serene images to everyday situations and drawings of technical utopias.

His new role models were now the American Norman Rockwell and the Dane Kurt Ard. He illustrated books for the Ehapa and novels for the publisher 's Bastion. His work has appeared in the "Quick", "colorful ", " Home and the World ", " crystal ", " picture" and many more. The general public, he was also known for his many film posters that reflect the German film of the 1950s and 1960s. Among them, for example, the posters for the films " The Bridge (1959 ) ," " And in the evening in the Scala " and " It happened in broad daylight ."

Much of his work was handed over in 2003 by his sons, the "House of the history of the Federal Republic of Germany " in Bonn as a gift.

Gallery

Some typical works by Helmuth Ellgaard

"I ram ", Berlin Illustrated, 1944

Book Illustration " adventure with the movie camera ", 1946

Title Page " Into the new life " No. 11/1946

Space Station, future vision 1949

" Traffic accident ", REVUE, 1952

Advertising for NSU Prinz, 1958

Heinz Rühmann in the movie "It happened in broad daylight ," 1959.

Director Frank Wisbar, 1961

" The calm before the storm", 1960

Movie Posters 1954-1961

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The list is not complete and will be further completed.