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Fletcher DuBois performs the “Vogelmen Diaries” at the opening.
Main Hall, Southern Wall: Thomas Nast, “Our System of Feathering Nests ..”
Main Hall, Northern Wall: Thomas Nast, “Let Us Prey!”
> Faits Divers – Illustrations: Crashes and Collapses
> Thomas Nast: “Dead Men´s Clothes Soon Wear Out”
Main Hall, series of showcases:
> Thomas Nast and his teacher Theodor Kaufmann
Main Hall, series of showcases: Special Artists: Constantin Guys – William Simpson – Melton Prior – Frederic Villiers – Joseph Pennell
> “Specials Artists” and the culture of the unfinished drawing (Melton Prior)
> Constantin Guys and William Simpson (Kriegsbilder, Bilderkriege. Die Erfindung der Bildreportage)
Main Hall, Entrance: Theo de Feyter
> Theo de Feyter: “Air Line” or The Unchosen Motif
> Theo de Feyter:On archaeology and drawing
> Theo de Feyter: “I took with me a painter”
> Theo de Feyter: Ali Ferzat and Bashar al-Asad
Lower Gallery I: “Öl-Raum”: Susan Turcot – Lili Rethi – Stefan Heller – Paul Hogarth
> Susan Turcot über Lili Rethi
Main Hall, Gallery: “Me too in Verdun”
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Me too in Verdun I
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Me too in Verdun II
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Me too in Verdun III
Lower Gallery II: “Ruins Room”: Willibald Krain – Hans Liska – Paul Renouard – Albert Robida -Thomas Walch – Eugen Krüger
> Willibald Krain:Spook at Dawn
> Paul Renouard, the Zola of Drawing
> Eugen Krüger: The seat of war
Lower Atrium: Western Front, Flanders: Monogrammist R.D – Adolf Hitler – Theodor Rocholl
> Flanders I: Monogrammist R.D.: Kompanie 1/134
> Flanders II: Adolf Hitler, Aquarelle
> Flanders III: Theodor Rocholl: The Broken Historical Painter
Lower Atrium, Black Box: Paul Hogarth
> Paul Hogarth: Defiant People, Drawings of Greece Today
> Paul Hogarth: Arthur Boyd Houghton
Haupthalle, Vitrinenreihe: Karikatur-Sektion: František Kupka – Émile Cohl – Jean Cocteau -Paul Iribe
> Emile Cohl: Ils sont passés devant les nez déconfits
Empore: Saul Leiter
> Saul Leiter and Robert Weaver, an artistic dialogue
Empore: Robert Weaver
> Saul Leiter and Robert Weaver, an artistic dialogue
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What sails here under the flag of caricature is nothing other than an early form of blunt and bleak social realism. The group makes a powerful and monumental impression, misery in the dimension of a history picture, and that’s exactly how it was meant to be. The publisher of La Caricature, Charles Philipon, like most […]
Heavenly Zo / INRI becomes ISO / Swabian and Lorraine Somnambulism Heavenly Zo Richard’s emblematic sexual symbolism originated in the theurgic Neoplatonic geometry of Alexandrian late antiquity and had found its way from there into Jewish mysticism and Hermeticism. The most famous example was the Seal of Solomon, the hexagram, which consisted in the interpenetration […]
