Honore Daumier - Henri Meyer - Fortune L. Meaulle - Eugene Damblans - Paul Iribe - Abel Faivr]
[September 1, 2010
Daumier and the Franco – Prussian “Dance of Death”
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.
Henri Meyer, Le Petit Journal. April 1895: The anniversary of Prince Bismarck (his 80th birthday)
Henri Meyer, Le Petit Journal. December 1892: The confession.
Honoré Daumier, Le Charivari, 22.8.1870: The nightmare of Mr. Bismarck
Fortune Louis Meaulle, Le Petit Journal. August 1898: The death of Bismarck
Eugene Damblans, Le Petit Journal. January 1916: Would it be my turn now?…
Unsigned, Le Petit Journal. October 1914: He does´nt sleep anymore!…
Paul Iribe, La Baionnette No. 41, April 1916: La Danse Macabre (special edition)
Francisco de Goya, Folly of fear, ca. 1819
Paul Iribe, La Baionnette No. 41, April 1916: La Danse Macabre (special edition)
Paul Iribe, La Baionnette No. 41, April 1916: La Danse Macabre (special edition)
Paul Iribe, La Baionnette No. 41, April 1916: La Danse Macabre (special edition)
Honoré Daumier, Le Charivari, 30.1.1871: The dream of the new Marguerite (the new militaristic appeal of Goethe´s Faust)
Paul Iribe, La Baionnette No. 41, April 1916: La Danse Macabre. (On the execution of the British humanitarian Edith Cavell )
Paul Iribe, La Baionnette No. 41, April 1916: La Danse Macabre (special edition)
Paul Iribe, La Baionnette No. 41, April 1916: La Danse Macabre (special edition)
A. Guillaume, Le Rire Rouge. January 1915. The King drinks! …
Honoré Daumier, Le Charivari, 17.3.187: Will the eclipse be totally?
Honoré Daumier, Le Charivari, 1872: Our last King cake.
Abel Faivre: Le Rire Rouge. February 1915: How the world wears the helmet.