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Robert Weaver V: Industrial Scenes II
The image of “Fortune” was deeply connected with a specific artistic American tradition of Social Realism. The Magazine was founded in 1939, in the era of the Great Depression and an art director like Leo Lionni, who was resonsible for the appearence of the magazine from 1940 on,updated this specific ethos by engaging illustrators like […]
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Japanese prisoner-of- war camps
Four different artists give pictorial informations about their experiences in Japanese prisoner-of- war camps: The German lance-corporal Willy Muttelsee spent four years, from 1916 – 1920, behind barbed wires in the refined atmosphere of the exemplary Bando camp on Shikoku island. The Dutch illustrator Charles Burki (1909 – 1994) was arrested in camp Fukuoka close […]
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The Art of Émile Cohl
Émile Cohl (born as Émile Courtet) had a preference for the graphic depictions of metamorphoses and puzzles of all kinds. His best cartoons are included in the caricature magazine “La Nouvelle Lune”, which was founded by Cohls friend and mentor André Gill. After Gills mental breakdown in 1880 Cohl took on the editorship.He also contributed […]
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Robert Weaver IV: Industrial Scenes I
From the mid-fifties on, Robert Weaver made constant contributions to the famous business magazine “Fortune”. “Fortune” kept a long tradition of brillant visual documentaries of industrial themes provided by artists like Walker Evans, Philip Guston, Robert Matta, Ben Shahn or Diego Rivera.
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The Art of “Petit Pierre” (Graphic Cycles of Théophile Steinlen)
It was mainly Théophile Steinlen’s merit of having transformed the rather jovial style of the late Daumier into an effective and dramatic means of expression for socialist class struggle.The few cover illustrations which Steinlen made for “Le Chambard Socialiste” by using his anarchistic pen name “Petit Pierre” became milestones of the socialist art of the […]
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Robert Weaver III: Kennedy´s Last Chance to be President , Esquire Magazine. April, 1959
In the end of 1958 famous graphic artist Robert Weaver was commissioned by the “Esquire Magazine” to accompany the Senate re-election campaign of John F. Kennedy with his sketch-pad and his pencil. As usual Weaver reworked his hasty, but very decided sketches later in his studio. The striking drawing, showing J.F.K. from behind in his […]
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Some Frightful War Pictures , London 1915
The art of William Heath Robinson can be qualified as an anarchic heightening of the inventions of the early masters of science fiction cartooning, of George Cruikshank and Albert Robida. In this collection of war cartoons, which appeared during the early stages of WWI, when the Trench warfare had just begun with its poison gas […]
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Karagoez, Turkish Cartoon Magazine
The newspaper archive Horst Moser, Munich, holds several examples of early issues of the satirical magazine “Karagöz”, which bear witness to the high graphic quality of Ottoman caricature at the beginning of the 20th century. The attraction and popularity of caricature magazines continues unabated in Turkish society today. The two protagonists of the satirical magazine, […]
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Prison Camp Book , Ksar-es-Souk , 1944 – 1947
Because of its stylistic diversity, Heinz Zantis’ album is one of the most interesting examples of prison camp books in the collection . It was executed in the manner of a poetry album. Zantis was imprisoned in a special camp of the French government-in-exile for German non-commissioned officers in Ksar-es-Souk in Morocco from 1944 to […]
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Ikonolog: Tree (pencil on paper, digital collage, 2007/08)
The sequence of images from Matthias Reinhold’s “Ikonolog” (www.ikonolog.de) represents the rhizomatic structural idea of his drawing project, which aims for infinite permeability and ramification. Aperspectival, organismic spatial experiences and observations of vegetative growth are poetically combined here with analytical fields of technical construction and explosion graphics, i.e. with ways of drawing that expose functional […]