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Zeichnungsreportagen für Life – von Thomas Hart Benton, William Sharp, Franklin McMahon und Ronald Searle
Ausgewählte Zeichnungsreportagen für Life, entstanden zwischen 1937 und 1961: Kalter Krieg, spektakuläre Prozesse, medialer Rummel. Life, 26. Juli 1937 : Der amerikanische Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton, später Lehrer von Jackson Pollock, übernahm in Michigan die Rolle des Reportagezeichners. In Pinsel- und Tuscheskizzen für Life zeigte er vermeintliche „Gefahren für die Demokratie“: Kommunisten, Streikende und Nazi-Sympathisanten. Die […]
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Adam in Oraibi – Wild Apollo’s Arrows Add. I
CS: New Series. A first visual essay in the wake of the Wild Apollo’s Arrows project. What happened after the Ossianists discovered the descendants of their wild Homer among the North American tribes and Blake identified their shamans as visionary Ezekiels? Lightning strikes a curved thimble in a garden by night …………….
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Neuerwerbung/ Romeyn de Hooghe: Het Hoog- en Lager-Huys van Engelandt , Amsterdam, um 1728
Diese dichte allegorische Komposition des niederländischen Stechers und politischen Bildstrategen Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708) steht an der Schnittstelle von grafischer Reportage, Propagandakunst und früher Verfassungstheorie. Ursprünglich im Jahr 1689 entworfen zur Feier der Thronbesteigung Wilhelms III. nach der Glorious Revolution, wurde die Platte 1702 mit dem Porträt Queen Annes neu aufgelegt und schließlich 1727 – […]
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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 […]