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Wilhelm Busch

75 works

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Pen and ink sketch of a man in a nightcap leaping from a bed, with hatched shading on tan paper.

Mit kühnem Mut aus seinem Bett / Schwingt sich der Turner Hoppenstedt

1871

Pen and ink sketch of a caricatured figure with dumbbells beside a leafy plant on tan paper.

Schon ist das Hantelpaar bereit / Zu frisch-fromm-freier Tätigkeit

1871

Brown ink drawing of an elephant standing upright and lifting dumbbells with its trunk, with hatched background lines.

Der Bizeps wird zuerst geübt, / Er, der dem Arm die Spannkraft gibt

1871

Ink sketch of a muscular man seen from behind lifting dumbbells overhead, with weights on the floor beside him.

Einseitig aber ist der Mann, / Der's nicht mit beiden Händen kann

1871

Ink sketch of an easel, a vase of flowers, and dumbbells on a tan sheet, with hatched shadows on the floor.

Stramm sei der Nacken, daß man trage / Das Vollgewicht in kühner Waage

1871

Ink cartoon of a dog at a fence reaching for a sausage, with motion lines and ink splatters on tan paper.

Besonders auch versäumt er nie / Des Beines Muskelenergie

1871

Ink sketch of a dog by a cabinet above, and two men drinking coffee at a table with a dog beneath, in two panels.

Derweil sitzt unten beim Kaffee / Herr Meck und deutet in die Höh'

1871

Pen and ink cartoon: a man with a pot on his head above, two seated men reading and talking at a table with a dog below.

Es wächst die Kraft. - Doch unten hier / Liest Vater Meck in dem Courier

1871

Pen and ink sketch of a collapsing ceiling sending people and a table into disarray, with a dog on the floor.

Und kracks! - zu groß wir das Gewicht; / Die Decke trägt es nicht - und - bricht

1871

Title page with red and brown script reading Hans Huckebein, a small bird perched on a curling branch, and ornamental scrollw

Zierhandschrift zu "Hans Huckebein"

1870

Pencil sketch of pollarded willow trees with sprouting branches over grass and shrubs, signed W.B. at lower right.

Weiden im Frühling