Der kritische Blick zeitgenössischer Rezensenten auf die deutschen Pressezeichnerei und Illustrationskunst des 19. Jhdts. war in seinem Gesamttenor einigermassen ernüchternd und lässt sich leicht auf folgenden Nenner bringen: Ausser Menzel nichts gewesen. Tatsächlich zeichneten sich in Deutschland erst relativ spät, gegen Ende der achtziger Jahre die Konturen von Zeichnern mit eigenständigeren Profilen ab…
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After Nadar had to cease his own magazine “Revue Comique” due to new censorship laws under the presidency of Louis Napoleon, 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 police measures, which only shortly afterwards ended in a […]
The photographic studio that Nadar ran since 1855 did not prevent him from continuing his press-graphic work. The following year, he supported his friend Charles Philipon in the publication of a smaller offshoot of “Journal pour rire” as a co-editor and chief cartoonist.
Before he became famous as a society photographer, a ballonist and a patron of the Impressionists, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon was known under his penname Nadar as one of the most inventive French cartoonists of the era. In the revolutionary year 1848 the republican activist started to work for the caricature journal “Le Charivari” of his friend […]