Otto Schendel

[Bas Schuddeboom]

Hello everyone,
One of Lambiek's Spanish contacts is looking into artists who did advertising art for tire companies. He asked me about a German artist called Otto Schendel. This is what he wrote:

I need your help, because I’m trying to obtain any biographical notes of a hidden german illustrator.

His name was Otto Schendel and was active in Germany near 1900 to 1960(?).
He was a comic cartoonist illustrator, working for Continental Tires advertisings on 30s and 40s.

You can see a sample of his hand at next adresses:

http://dideldum.gmxhome.de/pluto.htm
http://dideldum.gmxhome.de/pluto2.htm
http://dideldum.gmxhome.de/pluto3.htm
http://dideldum.gmxhome.de/pluto4.htm

and for Continental tires booklets:

http://www.veikkos.com/bibliodetails.php?II=53155
http://www.veikkos.com/bibliodetails.php?II=53156

Does anyone know more about this artist?
Thanks!

Bas

[Servalan]

After a little browsing are these ones my results:

One of his earlier publications had been in:
Bergmann's Haus- und Familien-Kalender 13. Jahrgang, 1912
(Bergmann's House and Family Calendar Vol. 13, 1912),
edited by Verlag Bergmann, Leipzig, 40 pages, includes "Humoreske" by Otto Schendel

Maybe he is born earlier? Well, he could have published at the age of 12 ...

Then there is another publication:
Die Biwakhühner und andere Soldatenhumoresken
(The Bivouac Chickens and Other Soldier's Funny Stories / Tell-Tales)
written by Alwin Römer, 96 pages, published by Ensslin & Laiblin, Reutlingen no date

Well, the German Wikipedia informs about Continentale AG: Among the sourcebooks they refer to
Hans Theodor Schmidt: Continental. Ein Jahrhundert Fortschritt und Leistung 1871-1971, edited by Continental-Gummi-Werke-Aktiengesellschaft, Hannover 1971

Maybe they have more data in the Continental archives ... but this tire company is much in trouble, very close to becoming broke!