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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 […]
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World War I: Flanders III , “Kriegsbriefe”
At the age of over sixty, Theodor Rocholl ended his long career as a war artist taking part in the First World War. In his War Letters from the west front in Flanders, which were printed in 1916, he did not avoid describing fear and destruction. However, in the gouaches and watercolours of this propaganda […]
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World War I: Flanders II (Watercolours)
This portfolio with a small selection of watercolours, which Adolf Hitler painted in the course of his military service during World War I, was edited about 1935 by his official photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. It is assumed that Hitler was involved in the editing process. Even so, shortly after the appearance he withdrew and stopped the […]
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Album of landscapes from the theatre of war (1870), Berlin – Hamburg, 1871
The portfolio with a total of thirty-six large-format depictions of abandoned battlefields of the Prussian-French War was published in autumn 1871, approximately half a year after the French surrender. It was printed in four of Germany’s leading lithographic establishments, including W. Korn & Co. in Berlin and Charles Fuchs in Hamburg. The refinement of the […]
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CS: Neurological Research Laboratories: Monkey Experiments Bremen , University of Bremen; September 2003
The dispute over animal experiments between the Bremen Senate and the university is escalating. Because they are “ethically not justified”, the Bremen Senate intends to definitively ban brain researcher Andreas Kreiter from his controversial monkey experiments at Bremen University; the university, on the other hand, insists on the freedom of research and wants to take […]
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Local Court Hamburg Centre / Archive , 12 pencil drawings
A so-called job opportunity with extra compensation is what Hamburg draughtsman Henrik Hold owes his intimate insights into the Kafkaesque underground world of the local magistrate’s court. All the drawings were made on site in spring 2007. (Textem Verlag, Hamburg has published a book reproducing this series of drawings in duotone).
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Original Drawings and Print Versions in the MePri – Collections # I , 1812 – 1902
Drawings by Albrecht Adam, Hubert von Herkomer, Frederic Theodore Lix, William Simpson, Melton Prior, Joseph Pennell and their representations in the Pictorial Press.
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Sketches from the Department of Anatomy , October 1989 – January 1990
Some examples from a drawing cycle, made on location in a dissecting course of the Anatomy Department of Düsseldorf University at the end of 1989. “Except for a few sheets in DinA3 format, all sketches are drawn using 2B, 6B TK pens on DinA4 letter paper. With my drawing board hanging around me, I could […]