The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-07
4 Night With the Staff of the
Fliegende Blaetter."
ART, WIT, BEER. SAUSAGES.
The Writers and Caricaturfsts Who Have
Made the Greatest Humorous Paper
in the World.


tant OF the younger contributors, of whom
number were scanning the sketches
with great interest There were lieuten-
ants represented without the everlasting
monocle, Jewish bankers without big fat
stomachs, and even ladies that were not
all handsome; in short, people one might
meet every day of ones life in Munich.
81 do not see why the standard repre-
sentatlon OF travelling Engiishrnan must
wear suit Of large square pattern. gray
stovepipe and carry telescope" answered
Flassar. tall, straight, gay young man.
But how, TO the deuce, are We TO know
whether 1t is meant to be serious or COM
ical ?" and Oberleander took deep draughs
out of his gray stone mug.
The humorous element is contained IN
the wordsu'
This animated conversation was going
on among the merry contributors to the
world-tamous Ftieqende BJdetter, who had
met in one Of the numerous beer gardens
to have chat on art and to Guido one
another in joviality and drinking beer.
The guests were numerous on that night.
In glancing around one perceived Graetz.
Heugeler, Wagner, all genial humorists,
and Unger and Kramer, who excel in
drawing dwarfs and children.
But there are others of wider reputation
That acknowledgement gentleman
with eyeglasses and a careless manner is
Rene Reinicke, the unexceiled delineator
of society life What studies of everyday
high life he offers to u.s. and what taste
and skill he displays in his soft, careful
pen and ink sketches
Next to him at Hamburger, a verv IN
pretentious, quiet, middle-aged man with
a dark mustache. Have you ever looked
at his charcoal sketchesP at his students,
lawyers, dignified professors, clergymen,
venerable matrons, well-to-do burghers
and unpretentious town maidens? Every
one OF them is character and he never
repeats himself! There exist enough in
teresting faces for him in this wide world
and he hunts for a new model for every
drawing. Unlike most of the other
draughtsmen, ne is also highly esteemed
as a painter.
And that gentleman with cigar in his
mouth and coat of a somewhat military
cut is the artist of the delightful maneuver
scenes, Nagel, who only lately resigned his
military post.
Quite dispute had risen about the old
school which draws in outlines without
much shading and sacrifices everything,
even correctness of form, to the immediate
comical effect and the stupendous tech
nique of the new school, which is of more
literary merit.
The latter make their drawing accord
ing to the joke, which they often think
out themselves, while the others draw
their caricatures on inspiration, and gen.
orally let somebody else add the expIana-
tory words.
alright, Flassar, don't get excited or
your beer will turn stale" said Oberlaen-
der-good naturally stroking his long
beard-who is one of the best known fig
ures in artistic Munich. How much did
you get for your last drawing2 That's the
principal thing"
"Sixty marks" ii. e. $15).
How, how" growledlOberlaender, mot
SO bad !"
You must accumulate quite fortune"
remarked long, lean, quixotic looking
gentleman, you have sometimes two CT
three in number
The speaker was Schliessman, who had
undergone years of suffering. He, in COM
pany with Verlat, the draughtsman, who
accompanied the German emperor TO Rus
STA, and two others had once been living in
the cellar of the new acadamy while it was
being built. They were so poor that they
had to beg their drawing materials from
other Students; and often when they felt
the pangs of hunger they shot a cat and
roasted it there over a fire made Of waste
wood
"Oberlaender gets good deal more for
his work. whispered enthusiastic young
Zopf TO his neighbor.
$50 do Reinicke and Hamburger. And
they deserve iti' was the answer with
out note Of envy.
us there anybody who can give animals
and plants u more comicaI aspect than
Oberlander' Only look at his powdered
and painted lionesses and tigeresses or the
ostrich who mistakes a bald head for one
of her eggsp'
And do you remember his laughing
elephants in his Kamerun pictures"
Those Of Emil Reinicke are also very
funny!'
But, after all. none of them equal
Busch" said Hermann Vogel, drawing
his mustache through his fingers, with a
smile Of qualification that generally accom-
panied his utterances; he is known for his
talent of rare ability. 1t is all the same to
him whether the scenes he had to repre-
sent were laid in Rome, Egypt, Greece or
the province with all its lovesick trou-
badors. That's matter of taste" said
Hamburger, lighting his tenth cigar. A
dense atmosphere of smoke. continually
growing thicker, lowered over the table.
for they all seemed 70 be strong smokers
quite a mum her WarA nufliiuy O1lf nf
Are you talking about me?" inquired
Oberlaender, who had ordered a couple of
Regensburger sausageS by the blonde bar
maid, using the occasion To give her an af-
fectionate pat on her rosy cheeks.
They nodded with a laugh. He threat
ened with ms index and then gave his
whole attention TO his repast.
It was quite the custom among this
happy-go-iuCkv crowd 10 criticise their
works IN the presence OF each other. their
remarks were mostly stT2ig htforward and
TO the point. and IL seldom came TO 4
malicious or sarcastic controversy between
them. The calming influence OF the heavy
beer prevented such a thing, and aside of
mat they were glad TO learn what they
could from one another.
w hat Is the matter with YOU Aristoph
anes?' inquired the good-humorei Vogel
with pleasant ouizzical expression in his
tWlnkhng eyes, Of little man who leaDt
MS head on both hands and stared at the
tables.
on, he is composing! On, Aristoph-
anes !" calculated Fiassar.
Leave me in peacei" growled the little
bechte. sheim, who had made such de-
clded hit III burlesquing Greek life, which
heretofore had always been represented in
SUCH an ideal manner.
Where did you steal the idea?'
surely not from you, my boy" muir