Creatures by Julius Klinger circa 1909 Poster

Julius Klinger was an Austrian Painter, draftsman, illustrator, commercial graphic artist, typographer and writer. Klinger studied at the Technologisches Gewerbemuseum in Vienna. Klinger was born in Dornbach near Vienna. In 1895, he obtained his first job as an artist with the Vienna fashion magazine Wiener Mode. In 1896 he moved to Munich where he worked as an illustrator for the Meggendorfer Blätter and other art journals. From 1897 to 1902 he was a collaborator to the Jugendstil magazine Die Jugend. In 1897 he relocated to Berlin, where he worked extensively as a commercial graphic artist until 1915. He developed a new fashion of functional poster design that soon gained him international reputation. In Berlin he contributed to the journals Das kleine Witzblatt, Lustige Blätter and Das Narrenschiff. Being Jewish, Klinger was deported by the Nazis to Minsk on June 2, 1942, where he was killed.