Fliegende Blätter
The Fliegende Blätter ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets")Count Franz Pocci, Hermann Vogel, Carl Spitzweg, Julius Klinger, Edmund Harburger, Adolf Oberländer and others. It was published by Verlag Braun & Schneider , a company belonging to the wood engraver Kaspar Braun and illustrator Friedrich Schneider.[3] Aimed at the German bourgeoisie, it reached a maximum circulation of c.95,000 copies by 1895. It merged in 1928 with a competitor, the Meggendorfer-Blätter[2] and was published until 1944 as Fliegende Blätter und Meggendorfer-Blätter by the Schreiber-Verlag in Esslingen am Neckar.[4]
Sample illustrations
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The first known instance of the rabbit–duck illusion, anonymous illustration from the 23 October 1892 issue
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Mahler conducting by Hans Schließmann , 1901
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Illustration by Hermann Stockmann , 1903
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Illustration by Alexander Otrey (1877–1939), 1903
Notes
- ^ Thierry Smolderen, The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, University Press of Mississippi, 2014, p. 114.
- ^ ISBN 9781851094394. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ "Fliegende Blätter". Harald Fischer Verlag. Archived from the original on 21 September 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ISBN 9783110305357.
External links
- Digital collection of the Fliegende Blätter from Heidelberg University
- Media related to Fliegende Blätter at Wikimedia Commons