Kaspar Braun

Kaspar Braun ( born August 13, 1807 in Aschaffenburg, † October 29, 1877 in Munich) was also written Caspar Braun, a German painter, draftsman, illustrator, wood engraver and publisher.

After attending high school in his hometown, he studied at the Munich Art Academy, headed by Cornelius. After painting and drawing journeys that took him to northern Germany and Hungary, he went in 1838 as employees by the studio of the Parisian Louis -Henri Brévière, one of Europe's leading wood engravers of his time. With the skills acquired there he founded after his return to Munich in 1839, together with the Councillor von Dessauer a xylographic institution. After the departure from the company Dessauer Braun did in 1843 together with the publisher Friedrich Schneider and founded the publishing house Braun & Schneider. This together he gave from 1844, the humorous and satirical, illustrated weekly paper the flying leaves out, which continued to live until the year 1944. As verlegerischer stroke of luck applies the acquisition of the rights to Max and Moritz, one of the early pictures stories of Wilhelm Busch. Also appeared in her Verlag, Munich picture sheets, an early precursor of the comic books of the 20th century, where such well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Franz Graf von Pocci or Moritz von Schwind participated. A special contribution to the Munich local history made ​​Kaspar Brown, when he in 1847, the Münchner Kindl, the coat of arms figure in the city of Munich, let rise in a drawing of the coat of arms. He gave impetus, a personification of this figure for the Munich Oktoberfest and other occasions to order ( in ) the city of Munich as a representative.