Bizarre
- Lepic, Ce qui Restait du Puissant Guillaume de Naillac
- Claeaz, Dancers with Death
- Anonymous American, A Naked Man and Horse
- Klinger, Amor, Tod und Jenseits (Love, Death and the Hereafter)
- Surugue, La Folie pare la Décrépitude
- Legros, La Légende du Bonhomme Misère : La Mort dans le Poirier
- Rops, L’Enlèvement
- Sadeler, Allegory of Opulence, Fornication and Stupidity
- Mohlitz, La Vierge aux Étrons (The Virgin of Turds)
- Legrand, Épaves de Famille (Oddballs of the Family)
- Jacquemart, L’Écurueil (sic)
- Benassit, L’Absinthe!
- de Bry, Punishment of the Mutinous Indians
- Goncourt, Le Singe au Miroir (The Monkey at the Mirror)
- Callot, Les Martyrs du Japon
- Dillon, Les Mendiants (The Beggars)
- Barberis, The Witch
- Budzinski, The Thirsty Giant
- Meryon, Le Ministère de la Marine
- Torre-Bueno, Death’s Arrival
- van Meurs, Animals of America
- Redon, Félinerie
- Chagall, Le Vixe
- Martin, Indécision (Tête de Femme)
- Rops, Le Calvaire
- Rops, Les Frères de la Bonne Trogne
- Gillray, Tentanda via est qua ve quoque possim Tollere humo
- Underwood, Simian Ecstasy
- Veber, Beheaded!
- Strang, Death and the Ploughman’s Wife: Frontispiece
- Corman, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
- Bliss, Gargoyles Spouting
- Castellón, Of Land and Sea
- Eichenberg, Isaiah 11
- Rops, L’Idole (The Idol)
- Master MZ, Aristotle and Phyllis
- Bracquemond, “Hors de mon soleil, canailles!"
- Spare, Nemesis
- Higgens, Forgotten
- Anonymous, Jewish Amulet to Protect Mother and Child
- Daumier, Une Expérience Qui Réussit Trop Bien
- Seligmann, Le Roi du Charbon (King Charcoal)
- Braun, The Release of Force
- Callot, Le Grand Rocher
- Forest, Bâstard Foetus Hérédité, Comte D’Averton Mort-Né
- Jacque, La Souricière
- Veber, “Ah! Qu’il fait chaud"
- Pastelot, Les Sorcières
- Lepic, Le Verger du Roi Louis (The Orchard of King Louis)
- Grandville, Résurrection de la Censure
- Tidemann, The Earth Swallows Up the People of Korah
- Shields, The Descent
- Redon, C’est le diable
- Sadeler, Ita Erit et Aventus Filii Hominis
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18. Robert Budzinski (1876-1955) The Thirsty Giant |
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The Thirsty Giant
A fine impression on laid paper with full margins, signed in pencil. Budzinski, who worked mostly in Königsberg, is one of hundreds of German artists who labored in the shadows of the great figures of German Expressionism. He was a painter and also worked in most print techniques, etching, lithography, woodcut, etc. His woodcuts are generally small and he seems to have had a certain predilection for nude figures -- and for giants. The two are combined here in a bucolic lake landscape, and do not appear to illustrate any literary work (though perhaps a German folk tale), but produce an odd and artistically satisfying image for its own sake. You can read in your own story.
