Incident on the beach IV, original design for the Viennese magazine Die Muskete
Beschreibung
Humorfully caricature as design for newspaper ”Die Muskete” was executed by famous Austrian Cartoonist, postcard painter and Illustrator Fritz Schönpflug (1873 - Vienna - 1951). He was co-founder and artistic director of the humorous weekly magazine "Die Muskete" (1905-1941), but also worked for other magazines such as the "Wiener fliegenden Blätter", the "Wiener Figaro", the "Bombe" and the "Sketch" from London. He was also an excellent horse illustrator. As a postcard artist, he is known for his depictions of Viennese types and caricatures of life in the Austro-Hungarian army. He created around 1,000 templates for the Viennese postcard publisher Brüder Kohn Wien (BKW).[1] Schönpflug also designed advertising posters, including warnings for passengers on the Viennese trams (1910) and cover drawings for brochures. However, Schönpflug also created a series of anti-Semitic hate caricatures together with Theo Zasche and M. J. Leuthe for the Christian Social “Reichspost” and its side paper “Wiener Stimmen”. Schönpflug was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus from 1906 to 1936, and in 1949 he was awarded the title of professor




