Daumier´s late cartoons on the Franco-Prussian war are counted among his best. They were inspired by Alfred Rethel´s famous wood-cut cycle “Dance of Death” and of course by Goya´s visionary etchings. The future relationsships between the newly founded German Reich and its neighbour provoked series of imaginative adaptions by some influential graphic artists like Henri Meyer, who was one of the leading illustrators of the penny paper “Le Petit Journal” and Paul Iribe, the famous precursor of the Art Deco-movement.
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 […]
2. Schildermalerei Der hervorragendste Interpret dieser demokratischen Emblematik war der Herausgeber von Ainsworths Jack Sheppard–Roman, der ausgebildete Parlamentsstenograph und Gerichtsreporter Charles Dickens.[29] Dickens hatte eine ähnliche Sozialisation wie Hogarth erfahren, mit einem Vater, der als Schuldner inhaftiert war, dem entsprechenden sozialen Abstieg und der Notwendigkeit, früh zum Unterhalt der Familie beizutragen. Die große Schnittmenge zwischen […]
After Nadar had to cease his own magazine Revue Comique due to new censorship laws under the presidency of Louis Napoléon, 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 severeness of police measures, which only shortly afterwards ended in […]