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Der Letzte Mann (1924) Lithografieserie zur Premiere von F. W. Murnaus Stummfilm
Der dynamische und sensationistische Stil, mit dem Theo Matejko seit den frühen 1920er Jahren einen nachhaltigen Eindruck auf die Kultur der Pressegrafik machte, war wesentlich von filmischen Anschauungen geprägt. Dass er 1924 von der UFA beauftragt wurde, die Dreharbeiten von Murnaus Stummfilm “Der Letzte Mann” (1924) zeichnerisch zu begleiten, unterreicht diesen Zusammenhang. In dem bahnbrechenden […]
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Eccentric courses. A selection from the drawing book “You are very interested in arts.”
Frédéric Ehlers is an infinite number of authors who use the pen to explore the expanse of the sheet of paper and who cross the three-dimensional space with their rhythmical movements in an analogous manner. The selection of drawings is counteracted here by film stills from his Movement Research. “You are very interested in arts” […]
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Nadar II: Journal pour rire 1848-51
After Nadar had to cease his own magazine “Revue Comique” due to new censorship laws under the presidency of Louis Napoleon, he continued to work for Charles Philipon. In his quarterly pictorial review-series for Philipon´s newly founded “Journal pour rire” he also commented on the increasing police measures, which only shortly afterwards ended in a […]
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Félix Nadar III: Petit Journal Pour Rire 1856
The photographic studio that Nadar ran since 1855 did not prevent him from continuing his press-graphic work. The following year, he supported his friend Charles Philipon in the publication of a smaller offshoot of “Journal pour rire” as a co-editor and chief cartoonist.
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Nadar I: Revue Comique 1848 -1849
Before he became famous as a society photographer, a ballonist and a patron of the Impressionists, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon was known under his penname Nadar as one of the most inventive French cartoonists of the era. In the revolutionary year 1848 the republican activist started to work for the caricature journal “Le Charivari” of his friend […]
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Deep Diving in the MePri (Internals)
High End Scan-Specialist Jürgen Seidel recently worked for weeks in the Institute´s collection to take pictures for a planned publication on the history of press graphics. Here are a few impressions:
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George Montbard II: Master of the Multipanel
From the early Eighties on George Montbard became mainly known for his illustrated travelogues from the Greater Maghreb. But he was also a wanted editorial illustrator, who managed to translate the blurred photographs and rough sketches of his collagues into exciting and catchy graphics. He developed a very special mastery in the field of the […]
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George Montbard I: A communard´s career in London
George Montbard (real name: Charles Auguste Loye) was one of the most brillant and versatile illustrators of the 19th century. The staunch republican started his career as a political caricaturist during the imperial rule of Napoleon III. He worked for “La Rue”, the legendary antiautorical magazin of his friend Jules Valles. The anarchist author assembled […]
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Visual notes. A selection.
Alex Bodea´s “Visual notes” is an ongoing series of poetically condensed observations in the urban sphere combining image and text. The visual notes archive was started in 2012, comprising more than 2000 entries. Technique: ink on paper, 5,7 x 10,7cm.
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The Art of Louis Sabattier II: 1900 – 1918
Many of Louis Sabattier´s soft focussed photo-paintings for the French magazine L Illustration conveyed a ambiguous cultural – critical content. Especially his popular scenes of colonial tourism could easily be read as a subversive comment on the Eurocentric perspective of the oriental painting tradition of his teachers Jean-Léon Gérôme and Gustave Boulanger. Exoticism and alienness, […]