Background
Klinger was born in Dornbach near Vienna.
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Julius Klinger
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Klinger studied at the Technologisches Gewerbemuseum in Vienna.
Career
In 1897 he relocated to, where he worked extensively as a commercial graphic artist until 1915. Together with the printing house Hollerbaum und Schmidt, he developed a new fashion of functional poster design that soon gained him international reputation. In 1912 he designed the poster for the Rund um air show in Johannisthal.
In he also contributed to Das kleine Witzblatt, Lustige Blätter and Das Narrenschiff humorous magazines.
Beginning in 1918, Klinger designed a comprehensive and noted campaign promoting the "Tabu" company"s cigarette rolling paper, that was advertised all over Vienna in 1918/19. Klinger devised a promotional strategy, spanning from small-sized newspaper advertisements to billboards and painted firewalls – construction site fences and winterized fountain paneling were used as advertising space, too.
According to Viennese police records, he was registered as moved to Minsk on June 2, 1942, id est (that is) deported. Presumably, he was killed the same year.
Probably towards the end of 1937 he designed his last poster for the Ankerbrot-Werke factory.
The Jewish-owned company was transferred to "Aryan" proprietors in 1938. After 1945 legitimate ownership was restored.
Politics
Being of Jewish descent, he suffered from national socialist harassment.
Membership
Deutscher Werkbund.
