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Brynolf (Bruno) Wennerberg was born in Otterstad (Sweden) in 1866. He was a painter, commercial artist, graphic designer and illustrator.

From 1885 to 1886 he was a student at the School of Applied Arts in Stockholm,  from 1887 to 1888 at P.S. Kroyer‘s school in Copenhagen and the at the Academies  in  Munich and Paris.

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In 1898 he settled in Munich. He worked on the magazines Lustige Blätter, Meggendorfer Blätter  and Simplicissimus (1915). In 1915 he designed several  military propaganda postcards in the series for Simplicissimus.

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Brynolf Wennerberg died in Bad Aibling (Bavaria) in 1950.

Text from propaganda-cards.com

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