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WILHELM See also:BUSCH (1832-1908) , See also:German caricaturist, was See also:born at Wiedensahl in See also:Hanover . After studying at the See also:academies of See also:Dusseldorf, See also:Antwerp and See also:Munich, he joined in 1859 the See also:staff of Fliegende Bldtter, the leading German comic See also:paper, and was, together with See also:Oberlander, the founder of See also:modern German See also:caricature . His humorous drawings and caricatures are remark-able for the extreme simplicity and expressiveness of his See also:pen-andink See also:line, which See also:record with a few rapid scrawls the most complicated contortions of the See also:body and the most transitory See also:movement . His humorous illustrated poems, such as Max and See also:Moritz, Der heilige See also:Antonius von See also:Padua, See also:Die Fromme Helene, Hans Huckebein and Die Erlebnisse Knopps See also:des Junggesellen, See also:play, in the German nursery, the same See also:part that See also:Edward See also:Lear's nonsense verses do in See also:England . The types created by him have become See also:household words in his See also:country . He invented the See also:series of comic sketches illustrating a See also:story in scenes without words, which have inspired See also:Caran d'Ache and other leading caricaturists . |
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