Background
His father, George Vogenauer (1868–1950), was a Catholic tailor from the Bavarian city of Königstein. His mother, Anna Maria Haenni (1869–1950), was the Protestant daughter of a tailor and came from Uttigen-Kinnersrüti, near Bern.
His father, George Vogenauer (1868–1950), was a Catholic tailor from the Bavarian city of Königstein. His mother, Anna Maria Haenni (1869–1950), was the Protestant daughter of a tailor and came from Uttigen-Kinnersrüti, near Bern.
After World War I, he worked as a poster designer and a book illustrator. He also designed banknotes, postage stamps, wooden toys, and ceramics. As a child, he lived in a bi-national family and was very fond of music and culture.
Ernst Vogenauer"s parents were married in 1893 in Munich, where they lived from 1893 to 1945.
Ernst was imaginative and an unstimulated child. Gifted in alto voice, violin playing and drawing, he was aspired to become a graphic artist.
In 1955, Gottfried wrote a private chronicle about the Vogenauer-Haenni family tree and its German and French descendants. Gottfried also wrote a collection of poems, Reifende Seele (Ripening Soul).
The manuscript is kept in a collection of handwritten documents at the Bavarian State Library.
Ernst Vogenauer studied in Munich during his early childhood and was a bright student of Fritz Helmut Ehmcke (1878–1965). At the same time, he worked for the Consee"s art printing office in Munich. In 1921, he left Munich for a job at the National Printing Office in Berlin where he worked until World World War World War II lieutenant was also at that time in the 1920s that he illustrated an edition of the Bavarian novel Der Wittiber (The Widower) by the German writer Ludwig Thoma (1867–1921).
He was gifted in various artistic crafts.
In spite of his respect for the Old Masters, he had an open mind about art and was attracted by futurism, cubism, and expressionism with regard to his official work for the National Printing Office of Berlin, and to avoid trouble, he often preferred to mark some of his private artistic works with the special signature "Saturn". Today this oil painting is in the private collection of Gerhard Schneider.
Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer was involved with German expressionism and participated in different international events such as the "First exhibition of modern art" in Bucharest. From 1946 to 1962 he worked as docent at the Berlin-Weissensee Art School (Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee).