Heinrich Zille
New York, Strand book store 제일 구석에서 폐기처분 될 처지가 된 아주 오래된 Heinrich Zille의 Croquis..
$5.00..
언제 발간을 했는지 너무 오래되서 빛바랜 옅은 붉은 색은 책의 전면으로 점점 퍼져
완전히 붉게 되기까지는 얼마 남지 않을것 같다......
하지만 오히려 이런책들을 좋아하는지라 너무 운좋게 얻은것 같아 기분이 좋다.
직접 이 책에 그림을 그린것처럼 너무 생생한 그림들이 많이 그려져있다.
매끄럽고 단순한 ....... 하지만 강약의 굵기가 제대로 제 위치를 갖고 있어 우아하면서도 힘이 느껴지는 크로키이다.
(January 10, 1858 - August 9, 1929), German illustrator and photographer, was born in Radeburg near Dresden, as the son of watchmaker Johann Traugott Zill (Zille since 1854) and Ernestine Louise (born Heinitz).
In 1867, his family moved to Berlin, where he finished school in 1872 and started an apprenticeship as a lithographer.
In 1883, he married Hulda Frieske, with whom he had three children. She died in 1919.
Zille became best known for his (often funny) drawings, catching the characteristics of people, especially "stereotypes", mainly from Berlin and many of them published in the German weekly satirical newspaper Simplicissimus.
He was first to portray the desperate social environment of the Berlin Mietskasernen (literally "tenement barracks"), buildings packed with sometimes a dozen persons per room that fled from the rural regions to the rising Gründerzeit industrial metropolis only to find even deeper poverty in the developing proletarian class.
His special talent was the scathingly humorous portrayal of what were in reality quite unfunny life conditions of handicapped beggars, tuberculous prostitutes, menial labourers, and especially their children making the best they could of life and resolutely refusing to give up.
Monument to Heinrich Zille in BerlinZille did not feel himself as a real artist: he often said that his work is not the result of talent but merely hard work. Max Liebermann nevertheless promoted him.
He called him into the Berlin Secession in 1903, put his works in expositions of the upper class, and encouraged him to sell drawings - and at the time Zille lost his job as a lithographer in 1910 he encouraged him to live from his drawings alone. The Berlin "Common People" paid him the greatest respect, and very late in life his fame culminated when both poverty and freedom of expression reached new heights in the roaring twenties, with the National Gallery buying some drawings in 1921, the Academy of the Arts honouring him with a professorship in 1924, and Gerhard Lamprecht making the movie Die Verrufenen based on his cartoon characters and stories in 1925. His 70th birthday in 1928 was celebrated throughout Berlin. He died one year later.
It is less known that he was the artist of many erotic pictures which are close to pornography but also show the life of normal people. Some of them can be seen in the Beate Uhse Erotic Museum in Berlin.
In 1983 director Werner W. Wallroth made an East German movie based on a musical written by Dieter Wardetzky and Peter Rabenalt. This movie Zille und Ick (Zille and I in Berlin Dialect) isn't a real biopic but uses parts of Zille's life for the story.
A drawing by Zille appears on a German postage stamp of 55 Euro-Cents, with the caption "Heinrich Zille, 1858-1929".
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