Erwin Barta

Erwin Barta was an Austrian painter and book illustrator. Also known as Erno Von Barta, the artist was active as a painter and illustrator around Vienna since at least the early 20th century. In the 1920s and 1930s he was present with his comic 'Bim und Bumbo' in the children's magazine Der Schmetterling, published by Steinsberg in Vienna. He was also drawing for the famous satire magazine Die Muskete, also from Vienna.

His comic strip 'Hannibal' was distributed by Diana Edition, the agency of Fritz Gottesmann. When his agency, that had set up shop in Amsterdam, lost track of him due to the Nazi occupation, Gottesmann asked the Dutch artist Marten Toonder to ghost Barta's strip in 1939. Barta remained active as a painter and illustrator throughout the 1940s.

Erwin Von Barta is possibly the same person as the Hungarian painter Ernö Barta, who was born in Stuhlweissenburg in 1878 and passed away in 1956.