His work is gigantic in scope and extent: Gustav Peichl has published more than 12,000 caricatures and 3000 cartoons in the past seven decades, published about 120 books. His buildings include the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, the rehearsal building of the Münchner Kammerspiele, the annex of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, and the day care center of the German Bundestag in Berlin's government district. On Sunday, the Austrian architect and caricaturist died at the age of 91 years in Vienna, as his son Markus Peichl confirmed.
Under the pseudonym "ironism" he also drew caricatures, including for the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and the "star". When he retired four years ago as a draftsman, he published "Das Wunder Österreich". In it he explains his country in ironic caricatures from 60 years and tells stories from Austria as a chronicler of the Second Republic and from a personal point of view. At that time he said: the more familiar a thing becomes to him, or "the more tormenting they are to him," the better the irony will be.
The Vienna-born Peichl began drawing cartoons, according to the Austrian news agency APA, to finance his architectural studies. Over time, the hobby became a second job. "The cartoon is an outlet for me, it saves the psychiatrist, so to speak," he once said.