Citizendia
Your Ad Here

1936 poster by Franz Kraus
1936 poster by Franz Kraus

Franz Kraus (also known as Franz Krausz; b. 13 May 1905, St. Pölten, Austria; d. Sankt Pölten ( St Pölten) is the capital city of the Austrian State of Lower Austria. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich 1998, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli graphic designer. Tel Aviv-Yafo (תֵּל ־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ تل أبيب Tal ʾAbīb) (usually Tel Aviv) is the second-largest city in Israel For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. A graphic designer (also known as a graphic artist and communication designer) is a professional within the Graphic design and Graphic arts industry

Contents

Biography

1910–23, Kraus grew up in Graz, Austria, and claimed that his favorite place was the art studio of brother Emil Kraus. Graz (etymologically from Slovene: Gradec IPA /gradeʦ/ "little castle" with a population of around 290000 as of 2008 (of which 252852 have principal (Emil went on to study at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna and at Alexander Archipenko's own art school in Berlin, and became a prominent member of the Sezession Graz. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien is an institution of higher education in Vienna, Austria. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Alexander Porfiryevich Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr Oleksandr or Aleksandr) ( May 30, 1887 - February 25, 1964) Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Emil's twin brother immigrated to the U.S. in 1939. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Their other brother, Otto, died in one of the Nazi concentration camps in the 1940s, and Emil under unknown circumstances in Paris. See also List of Nazi-German concentration camps, Extermination camp Prior to and during World War II, Nazi Germany under Hitler maintained Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city ) Franz's first employment, arranged by his father, was as a window decorator of the bookstore of the Löwit-Verlag, a major publisher in Vienna. He had settled in Vienna in 1923 at age 18, where he resided for three years. As a Jew, his interest in Zionist issues began to develop and was encouraged by his reading the speeches of Chaim Weizman and Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן – November 27, 1874 &ndash November 9, 1952) was a Zionist

Kraus lived in Berlin 1926–33, where he eventually assumed the position of the sole graphic designer of the Friedrich Ernst Hübsch-Verlag (publisher). Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. The job fulfilled his early desire to become an artist; he had envied brother Emil's talent. As a night student, he studied in the Reimann Schule in Berlin, the city where he met his wife-to-be Anni. Due to the frightening public antisemitic incidences there, he and Anni decided to immigrate to Palestine. Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. They spent a year, 1933–34, in Barcelona (arriving there from Paris) where Franz designed Hollywood-film posters. Barcelona ( Catalan bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish baɾθeˈlona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia Anni was a photographer for a German journalist whose wife was Jewish, a circumstance which possibly supported the association. Because there was no rabbi or an active synagogue in Barcelona, they could not be married as Austrian citizens and were rather wed in a civil ceremony at the German embassy. A synagogue (from Greek: grc συναγωγή transliterated synagogē, "assembly" he בית כנסת beit knesset, "house of Fortunately, through a generous uncle of Anni, they were able to buy visas to Palestine, sailing from Marseille to the port of Jaffa, arriving October 1934. Marseille, ( English alt Marseilles mɑrˈseɪ — French: maʁsɛj locally — Provençal Occitan: Marselha maʀˈsijɔ Jaffa يَافَا;(יָפוֹ Yafo; also Japho, Joppa) is an ancient Port city believed to be one of the oldest in the world

The Krauses moved to nearby Tel Aviv, a small, sleepy village at this time and one having only been established in 1909. Tel Aviv-Yafo (תֵּל ־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ تل أبيب Tal ʾAbīb) (usually Tel Aviv) is the second-largest city in Israel Through receptive manufacturers, Franz was able to acquire clients for advertising. His forte was the design of posters. An initial client was Dubek ciagarettes, for which he worked for 45 years. Another on-going client was Elite, a candy manufacturer (today owned by Straus). Prior to Kraus who dealt with every aspect of graphic design, business people in pre-1948 Palestine and early Israel knew little about advertising methods. Even though Kraus employed photography later in his career, his most dynamic and colorful work was realized through his hand-painted artwork, frequently in gouache, sometimes calling on photographic studies shot by his wife. Gouache, Pronounced "Gouash" (from the Italian guazzo, "water paint splash" or bodycolor (the term preferred by art historians His best-known image, though not his aesthetic best, is the "Visit Palestine" poster of 1936. He was prolific but, even so, made very little money from frugal clients and, according to Kraus himself, was unable to work gratis. He is one of Israel's most-accomplished graphic designers; the others are Gabriel and Maxim Shamir (1909–92, 1910–90), Dan Reisinger (b. Gabriel Shamir (b Guttel Sheftelowitz Libau Latvia 1909 d Israel 1992 and Maxim Shamir (b Dan Reisinger (born 1934 is an Israeli designer of graphics exhibitions and stage sets 1934) and David Tartakover (b. David Tartakover ( דוד טרטקובר) (born 1944) is an Israeli Graphic designer, political activist Artist and design Educator 1944).

Exhibitions

Collection of works

References

© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic