Julius Klinger

Julius Klinger (22 May 1876 – 1942) was an Austrian painter, draftsman, illustrator, commercial graphic artist, typographer and writer.

Together with the printing house Hollerbaum und Schmidt, he developed a new fashion of functional poster design that soon gained him international reputation.

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.

Large numbers of Viennese Jews were murdered at the Maly Trostenets extermination camp near Minsk.

It is presumed that Julius and Emilie suffered this fate in 1942 or soon after.Klinger's final poster was designed towards the end of 1937 for the Ankerbrot-Werke factory.