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Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931)
Harald Kretzschmar was born in Berlin in 1931.
Harald Kretzschmar is a German caricaturist, graphic artist and columnist who is best known for his portrait caricatures.
After graduating from the Kreuzschule in Dresden, Harald Kretzschmar studied from 1950 to 1955 at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art. Since then he has been working freelance. In 1954 he published his first caricatures in the Leipziger Volkszeitung. Encouraged by Hannes Hegen, he came to Eulenspiegel in 1955, where he stayed until 1991 and soon became a permanent member of the cartoonists' tribe.
In the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR, as chairman of the central caricature section, he organized numerous exhibitions such as economic comics, carigraphy and the Satiricum Greiz, intended as the GDR's national caricature collection. In addition to press publications, increasingly in the daily press since 1990, he has made prints and other freelance works (acrylic portraits). He is also a sought-after quick portraitist for events of all kinds. His first theater experience, "Nathan the Wise" with Erich Ponto in the destroyed Dresden, he said in an interview with the young world in 2019, had made him a "political person".
In 2008 he made a lasting memory of his new home town of Kleinmachnow, where he has lived since 1956 and many other well-known painters and writers with him, with his book Paradise of Encounters: The Artist Town of Kleinmachnow.
Some of the works are in the collections of the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Harald Kretzschmar, Stadttheater Fürth, Fürth (Bavaria), 03.05. – 25.06.1998
CARTOONAGE, Stadttheater Fürth, Fürth (Bavaria), 02.02. – 13.03.1997
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): DER SICHERHEITSPARTNER (THE SECURITY PARTNER),
30 December 1989, Ink on paper, Sheet size 41 x 30 cm, Signed
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): HOCH LEBE DER UNTERGRUND
(LONG LIVE THE UNDERGROUND), 1993, Ink on paper, 41 x 30 cm, Signed
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): ... NUN WILL ICH MAL GANZ FREIMÜTIG SAGEN ...
(... NOW I WANT TO SAY QUITE FRANKLY ...), 1992, Ink on paper, Sheet size 41 x 30 cm, Signed
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): MARX' LEHRE IST ALLMÄCHTIG, WEIL S... (MARX' TEACHING IS OMNIPOTENT BECAUSE S...), 11 February 1989, Ink on paper, Sheet size 41 x 30 cm, Signed
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): ... UND NUN EIN OFFENES WORT!
(... AND NOW AN HONEST WORD!), 1993, Ink on paper, Sheet size 41 x 30 cm, Signed
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): Portrait of John Hammond, 1998, Ink on paper,
Sheet size 29,5 x 21 cm, Signed
With a dedication by Harald Kretzschmar: “Harald Kretzschmar für John Hammond”. A present from Harald Kretzschmar to John Hammond on the occasion of his solo exhibition AUTOREN UND AKTEURE (AUTHORS AND ACTORS) at the Stadttheater Fürth in 1998.
Artist's Greetings
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): VERSUCHS DOCH MAL MIT GESUNDEM MENSCHENVERSTAND!, 1988, Cartoon, 21 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 1988 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond with inscription (Zur Erinnerung Gabrovo 1987 - Harald Kretzschmar).
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 1989 NEUES DENKEN HOFFEN ODER NEUES HOFFEN DENKEN? NEUES MACHEN!, 1988, Cartoon, 21 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 1989 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond.
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 1990, 1989, Cartoon, 21 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 1990 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond.
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 1991 ÜB IMMER TREU UND REDLICHKEIT BIS ..., 1990, Cartoon, 21 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 1991 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond.
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 1992 DER MENSCH IST GUT - SEI BESSER!, 1991, Cartoon, 21 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 1992 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond.
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 1994 IMMER FESTE ZUCKER GEBEN!, 1993
Cartoon, 21 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 1994 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond.
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 97, SPAR-FLAMME, 1996,
Cartoon on postcard, 15 x 10 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 1997 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond with inscription (3.1. Gute Wünsche Euch beiden und zahlreiche Unternehmungen '97! Arbeite mit Hochdruck an DER LETZTE VORHANG und schicke an den 10. Januar ab und hoffe auf Erfolg! Euer Harald Kretzschmar).
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 99, GUTEN RUTSCH, Cartoon, 1989,
Sheet size 29,5 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 1999 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond.
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 00, VORSICHT DIE NULLEN KOMMEN!, 1999,
Cartoon, Sheet size 29,5 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 2000 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond.
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 01, DAS NEUE JAHRTAUSEND ENDLICH STEHT ES!, 2000, Cartoon, Sheet size 29,5 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 2001 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond with inscription (Viel Glück! Kretzschmars
2001).
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 02, EUROSA.TOY.TOY...TOY.., 2001,
Cartoon, Sheet size 29,5 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 2002 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond.
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 03, BESSERE ENWICKLUNGSPRO PORTIONEN 2003 WÜNSCHEN KRETZSCHMARS, Cartoon, Sheet size 10 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 2003 from Harald Kretzschmar to John and Renate Hammond.
Harald Kretzschmar (b. 1931): KRETZSCHMARS 04, AUF ZUM FINALEN TRIUMPH DER SATIRE, 2003, Cartoon, Sheet size 21 x 21 cm, Signed
New Year greetings 2004 from Harald Kretzschmar to John und Renate Hammond with inscription (P.S. Im Jahr 1954 wurde die Zeitschrift
der EULENSPIEGEL gegründet. Alles Gute für Euch persönlich und für die Galerie - Euer Harald - Vielen Dank für die vielen Einladungen, aber das muß nicht sein - ich komme zu selten in Eure Gegend
...).
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