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Heinrich Zille Art

German, 1858-1929
Rudolf Heinrich Zille (10 January 1858 – 9 August 1929) was a German illustrator, caricaturist, lithographer and photographer. He was best known for his humorous drawings, exaggerating stereotypes, mainly from Berlin many of which were published in the German satirical newspaper Simplicissimus. He was the first to portray the desperate social environment of the Berlin Mietskasernen (literally "tenement barracks"), buildings packed with sometimes a dozen persons per room who fled from the rural regions to the expanding industrial metropolis during the Gründerzeit 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, and menial labourers, and especially their children, making the best they could of life and resolutely refusing to give up.
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Artist: Heinrich Zille
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

By Heinrich Zille

Located in Cologne, DE

With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...

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1890s Modern Heinrich Zille Art

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Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

By Heinrich Zille

Located in Cologne, DE

With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...

Category

1890s Modern Heinrich Zille Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

By Heinrich Zille

Located in Cologne, DE

With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...

Category

1890s Modern Heinrich Zille Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

By Heinrich Zille

Located in Cologne, DE

With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...

Category

1890s Modern Heinrich Zille Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

By Heinrich Zille

Located in Cologne, DE

With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...

Category

1890s Modern Heinrich Zille Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst

By Heinrich Zille

Located in Cologne, DE

With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...

Category

1890s Modern Heinrich Zille Art

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

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