Gerhard Gepp

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Gerhard Gepp
"End game" by Gerhard Gepp
Born	(1940-04-20)20 April 1940 Pressbaum, Austria
Died	26 March 2024(2024-03-26) (aged 83) Tulln an der Donau, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Known for	Illustrator, painter, graphic designer

Gerhard Gepp (20 April 1940 – 26 March 2024) was an Austrian illustrator, painter, and graphic designer.^[1]

Gerhard Gepp was born on 20 April 1940 in Pressbaum on the western edge of Vienna, where he lived and worked until his death.^[2]

His initial training was in offset printing. As an artist, he was self-taught. Between 1964 and 1976, he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator.^{[citation needed]}

Gepp received prizes for various pieces of work such as the "Poster Prize" from the City of Vienna and the Milanese "Rizzoli Prize".^{[citation needed]} His first publications in various professional journals in Germany and Switzerland followed. At the same time Gepp worked at advertising photography and staged his own exhibition in the Vienna gallery "Die Brücke". In 1976 he also started to produce hand-coloured etchings. From 1976 he was working on drawings, gouache and oil paintings which were exhibited in Vienna at the BAWAG-Foundation. Further exhibitions in Austria and Germany followed and at art fairs in Basel, Cologne and Ghent.^{[citation needed]}

From 1989, his illustrations focused increasingly on political satire. Working with acrylic on cardboard and/or canvas he continued to receive prizes at exhibitions. His illustrations frequently appeared in German-language and international publications.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001 the Austrian "professional" Professor title was conferred on Gepp.

Gepp died in Tulln an der Donau on 26 March 2024, at the age of 83.^[3]

Gerhard Gepp had numerous print media contracts. These have included daily papers such as Der Standard, Die Presse and the Wiener Zeitung in Austria as well as the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit in Germany.

His magazine contracts included the Austrian economic monthly Trend, the German popular psychology monthly Psychologie Heute and Switzerland's satirical monthly Nebelspalter.

In addition, Gepp produced a large number of illustrations and title images for the Wiener Journal founded in 1980 by Jörg Mauthe (and sold in 2004 to the Wiener Zeitung).

• Werner Fiala, Gerhard Gepp: Manifest in Wort und Bild. Bibliothek der Provinz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-90000-072-1
• Irene Ulitzka, Gerhard Gepp: Das Land der Ecken. Picus Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-85452-062-X, (Österr. Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis 1994, Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis der Stadt Wien, 1994)
• Gerhard Gepp: Kleines Boot auf Grosser Reise. Picus Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-85452-087-5

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• Literature by and about Gerhard Gepp in the German National Library catalogue
• Gerhard Gepp discography at Discogs