Manfred Deix died: Austrian cartoonist with a sharp pen – t-online.de

Krems (dpa) – fat, thick lips, long Schwänzchennase: “Fresh engaged” are the two ugly on the cartoon by Manfred Deix. The Austrian has left his contemporaries hardly a good hair

Whether lovers, churchmen or neo-Nazis -. He took them with a sharp pen decades targeted. “It has often accused me of taste and Brutal Humor” he once said. “But who, if not the satirist, to call things by their name?” Last Saturday the Ergründer died not only of the Austrian soul and most famous political signatories of the Alpine Republic at the age of 67 years after a long illness.

In Germany Deix was mainly through his caricatures in journals such as the ” star “and the magazine” mirror “known. In opened in 2001 Austrian Caricature Museum in Krems are the works of Deix seen in a permanent exhibition. Museum Director Gottfried Gusenbauer said: “There were and are many taboos and unpleasant truths that you could not respond or could, here Deix has opened with his pictures the eyes.” Companion Gottfried Helnwein mourns a friend “He showed us that the Creator’s work is replete of mistakes, embarrassments and carvers,” he said about Deix

Even the age of eleven had Deix as a draftsman first. Success. In the “Lower Austrian Church Newspaper” he published a comic strip. This meant no later consideration for people of faith. Rather were churchmen of his favorite victims. In the “Muse leaves” swirls an air stream the robe of a cleric to the visibility of the underpants up – a design free after Marilyn Monroe’s appearance on a grid slot

His training Deix finally received at the Academy of Fine Arts in. Vienna. The chain-smoking and cat lovers published in 1980 a first anthology entitled “Cartoons” – which should followed by many more, so that the “Deix figures” made it as a term even up in the dictionary. He had to laugh when drawing his characters often Deix known once. After the attacks on the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” Deix said the role of satire: “You can do anything and has everything goes together with the morality of signatory One must own courage but not outwit and not be extremely dangerous..”

2014 was already just collapsed. 2015 finally published “New Drawings” and his 18th book “Wildlife Cat & amp;. Co”. His view of the world remained skeptical until recently – to say the least. “Compared to the reality are my pictures oases of peace and civility.”