Hellmut Eichrodt

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Hellmut Eichrodt (1872–1943) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was the younger brother of Otto Eichrodt. From 1890 to 1903 he studied at the Karlsruher Kunstakademie and trained with Hans Thoma and Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth. Between 1897 and 1912 he worked for the magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus. He painted murals in churches and public buildings, including the mausoleum of Ethiopian emperor Menelik II in Addis Ababa and several murals in Karlsruhe’s Christuskirche. The Karlsruher Kunsthalle holds two portraits by him.

Eichrodt worked with Kunstdruckerei Künstlerbund Karlsruhe and made posters for companies such as Brauerei Ketterer, Kast & Ehinger, Badische Feuerversicherungsbank, and Norddeutscher Lloyd. For Friedrich Dreser he created image collections Der Froschkönig, Der Soldat (1908) and Die sieben Raben (1909), signed with "H-E." In 1918 he illustrated the call for the soldiers of Baden to lay down their arms and return home.