Saturday, April 22, 2017
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Max Mayrshofer (1875-1950)












"In stark contrast to his classic, impressionist painting of the later period, Mayrhofer's sketchbooks contain a multitude of whimsical, grotesque drawings with demons, skeletons and fables. As early as 1912, Wilhelm Michel wrote: "For a while, his imagination had been felled by the creation of fabulous animal bodies which are not equal in the grotesque art of our cultural circle. He has drawn them into a book, diary-like, like hypochondria melancholy and bawdy mood. " Whether this ambiguity in his work is expression of his personality, or whether Mayrshofer as a professor at the art academy had to follow the taste of so-called "German art" propagated in this epoch, can not be explained with certainty to this day.
It is known from his diaries that Mayrshofer has suffered from a severe renal disease and severe neuralgia since childhood. That is why medical questions were repeatedly occupied by him in his presentations. In a sketch book with the inscription "Nice Drawings" he sketches patients, doctors and death, who dwells as a skeleton among the living. In the midst of the sick and the dead, he represents himself." quote source
All artworks were originally published in the German art magazine Jugend.
A website for the artist can be viewed here.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Jaroslav Panuska (1872-1958)
Witch, 1898-1901
Water Sprite In The Bay
Baba Yaga
Headless Horse (Fairy Tale), around 1900
Revenge Of The Dead, 1898-1901
Lipnitskaya Jackdaw And A Vampire, 1910-1911
Vampire, 1900
"Devil's Mill". Illustration for Vaclav Riha's "Tale Of Three Wonderful Friends," 1900
Illustration for Vaclav Riha's "Tale Of Three Wonderful Friends," 1900
Illustration for Vaclav Riha's "Tale Of Three Wonderful Friends," 1900Saturday, March 18, 2017
Alberto Martini (1876 - 1954)
Death - The tragedy of force, from "Mysteries" 1914
Grotesque, 1915
Illustration from "Between Thee And Him Alone" published in "Raw Edges" by Perceval Landon, 1908
Ex libris diablerie for Irene Dwen Pace, 1949
The Sold Virgin
Madness, 1914
Illustration from "The Gyroscope" published in "Raw Edges" by Perceval Landon, 1908
Illustration from "Railhead" published in "Raw Edges" by Perceval Landon, 1908
Illustration from "Thurnley Abbey" published in Raw Edges by Perceval Landon, 1908
The Mermaid and Mosko
Grotesque, Mask, 1915
Animation, 1915
Aglauros Became Rock, 1947
Business Cards for Domenico Longo and Vittorio Pica, 1915
Human Heart, Frontpiece for The Mysteries, 1915
Witch, 1915
Traviso, 1914
But now that I'm awake, 1910
"Alberto Martini (November 24, 1876 – November 8, 1954) was an Italian painter, engraver, illustrator and graphic designer. Critics have described Martini's range of work from "elegant and epic" to "grotesque and macabre" and consider him one of the precursors of Surrealism." - quote source
Previous posts on Alberto Martini include the following..
Danza Macabra Europea (1915)
Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations (1905)
Illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy (1937)
Birth - Human Suffering (1923)
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