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| Wilhelm Busch ( April 15, 1832 ( Wiedensahl near Hannover) - January 9, 1908 ( Mechtshausen ) was a German painter and poet who is known for his satirical picture stories. After studying first mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf, Antwerpen and Munich he turned to drawing caricatures. One of his first picture stories, Max and MoritzMax and Moritz (A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks was a German language comic strip and may have been the first such strip ever. This highly inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and (published in 18651865 is a common year starting on Sunday. Events January 31 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. February 17 American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forc), was a huge success. Max and Moritz as well as many of his other picture stories are regarded as one of the main precursors of the modern comic stripThis article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. There is a separate article about The Comic Strip, the British comedy group. A comic strip is a short strip or sequence of drawings, telling a s, and are said to have been the inspiration for the Katzenjammer KidsKatzenjammer Kids is one of the oldest comic strips and the oldest still in syndication. It debuted in 1897 in the American Humorist a Sunday supplement of the New York Journal along with the slightly older strip The Yellow Kid''. It was created by Rudolp. Wilhelm Busch also wrote a number of poems in a similar style to his picture stories. Besides that he produced more than 1,000 oil paintingOil painting is done on surfaces with pigment ground into a medium of oil especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Other oils occasionally used include poppyseed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil. These oils result in different properties in the os that weren't sold before his death in 1908. |
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