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The Illuminated Myth of Mzona by Richard of Kédange (1802-1879). Part I
From Alsace to Lorraine / The research / The book In 2010, three graphic grimoires from rural Lorraine popped up at a Strasbourg bookseller’s, whose peculiarity and intensity were astounding. A Richard from Kédange, today Kédange-sur-Canner, a town not far from the border with Saarland and about 30 km north of the capital of Lorraine, […]
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Think about Horthy! The interventionist art of Mihály Biró
The Melton Prior Institute is represented in the exhibition “Turning Points. The Twentieth Century through 1914, 1939, 1989 and 2004 ” at the Hungarian National Gallery Budapest with an extensive installation. The arrangement “Gondolj Horthyra / Think about Horthy” which opens up this display of contemporary artworks reflecting the complex history of the 20th century […]
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Defiant People. Drawings of Greece Today, London 1952
“Fate intervened in the person of Betty Ambatielos, the indomitable Welsh schoolteacher wife of Tony Ambatielos, a prominent Greek Communist leader who faced execution by the regime of Marshall Papagos which ruled Greece in those days. I was asked to depict his trial against the background of Greece itself, the first victim of the Cold […]
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Me too in Verdun # 3 – On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
3) Verdun revisited In the circles of specialists in German studies, the political Goethe is regarded as “difficult”. His ambitions in this regard are often treated as fringe problem zones that can be neglected within the monumental, aesthetic whole comprised of creative writing and natural science, which one is accustomed to admiring him for. What […]
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Ein Münchner im Milljöh. “Berliner Bilder” von Karl Arnold
Not translated: Seit 1921 betätigte sich Karl Arnold, einer der Hauptzeichner und Miteigner des Münchner Satiremagazins Simplicissimus, als Chronist des “wilden” Lebens in der preußischen Metropole. Seine Berliner Bilder erschienen in unregelmäßiger Folge und brachten es auf insgesamt 48 Blatt. Mit der Publikation eines gleichnamigen Sammelbandes hatte die Reihe dann 1924 auch ihren Abschluß gefunden. […]
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Willibald Krain and the Ashcan School. The Agony of Socio-Critical Press Graphics in the 20th Century
Willibald Krain became known during the First World War for his pacifistic prints portfolio “Krieg” [War] which was published 1916 in Zurich in three different language versions. Along with his mentor, Käthe Kollwitz, Krain ranked among the very few socio-critical artists in 1920s Germany whose work was internationally acclaimed. His illustrations and paintings were published […]
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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 […]