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Hermann Vogel, "Der Neue Pegasus" The artist titled his present work "Der Neue Pegasus - Vision eines Idealisten nach der Lektüre eines modernen Musenalmanachs" (The New Pegasus - Vision of an Idealist after Reading a Modern Musenalmanach), the drawing published in 1894 in the Munich magazine "Fliegende Blätter" by Braun & Schneider shows the pessimistic, sometimes progress-sceptical attitude of the otherwise so humorous artist, the winged poet's horse and symbol of the art of poetry Pegasos [also: Pegasus] lies dying of thirst on the ground next to a broken lyre and is mourned by hares and frogs; instead of him, a deadly and putti-swallowing viper rises into the air by means of a raven and an owl and carries a mermaid into an uncertain future, only a few pigs triumph in front of a melancholic backdrop of smoking factory chimneys and a funeral procession about the end of poetic poetry, technically finely executed mixed media (pencil, black ink and white heightening) on cardboard, signed, inscribed and dated "Herm. Vogel Pl. 94 [Plauen 1894]", titled by the artist in the lower margin, traces of mounting, somewhat yellowed and stained, unframed, sheet dimensions approx. 28.5 x 21.5 cm. The artist titled his present work "Der Neue Pegasus - Vision eines Idealisten nach der Lektüre eines modernen Musenalmanachs" (The New Pegasus - Vision of an Idealist after Reading a Modern Musenalmanach), the drawing published in 1894 in the Munich magazine "Fliegende Blätter" by Braun & Schneider shows the pessimistic, sometimes progress-sceptical attitude of the otherwise so humorous artist, the winged poet's horse and symbol of the art of poetry Pegasos [also: Pegasus] lies dying of thirst on the ground next to a broken lyre and is mourned by hares and frogs; instead of him, a deadly and putti-swallowing viper rises into the air by means of a raven and an owl and carries a mermaid into an uncertain future, only a few pigs triumph in front of a melancholic backdrop of smoking factory chimneys and a funeral procession about the end of poetic poetry, technically finely executed mixed media (pencil, black ink and white heightening) on cardboard, signed, inscribed and dated "Herm. Vogel Pl. 94 [Plauen 1894]", titled by the artist in the lower margin, traces of mounting, somewhat yellowed and stained, unframed, sheet dimensions approx. 28.5 x 21.5 cm. Artist info: German artist. German draughtsman, illustrator and painter-poet (1854 Plauen - 1921 Krebes), studied briefly at the Dresden academy at Easter 1874, self-taught, 1877-78 study trip to Italy (Rome), created numerous illustrations, among others for the publisher Braun & Schneider Munich and for the magazine "Fliegende Blätter", 1909 appointed professor, founding member of the "Deutsche Künstlergesellschaft", member of the Verband Deutscher Illustratoren and the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft, exhibited at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung, among others, worked in Plauen, later in Dresden-Loschwitz and Krebes near Gutenfürst in Vogtland, source: Thieme-Becker, Frank Weiß "Malerei im Vogtland", register of the Dresden Academy, Boetticher, Dressler and Wikipedia.

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Hermann Vogel, "Der Neue Pegasus" The artist titled his present work "Der Neue Pegasus - Vision eines Idealisten nach der Lektüre eines modernen Musenalmanachs" (The New Pegasus - Vision of an Idealist after Reading a Modern Musenalmanach), the drawing published in 1894 in the Munich magazine "Fliegende Blätter" by Braun & Schneider shows the pessimistic, sometimes progress-sceptical attitude of the otherwise so humorous artist, the winged poet's horse and symbol of the art of poetry Pegasos [also: Pegasus] lies dying of thirst on the ground next to a broken lyre and is mourned by hares and frogs; instead of him, a deadly and putti-swallowing viper rises into the air by means of a raven and an owl and carries a mermaid into an uncertain future, only a few pigs triumph in front of a melancholic backdrop of smoking factory chimneys and a funeral procession about the end of poetic poetry, technically finely executed mixed media (pencil, black ink and white heightening) on cardboard, signed, inscribed and dated "Herm. Vogel Pl. 94 [Plauen 1894]", titled by the artist in the lower margin, traces of mounting, somewhat yellowed and stained, unframed, sheet dimensions approx. 28.5 x 21.5 cm. The artist titled his present work "Der Neue Pegasus - Vision eines Idealisten nach der Lektüre eines modernen Musenalmanachs" (The New Pegasus - Vision of an Idealist after Reading a Modern Musenalmanach), the drawing published in 1894 in the Munich magazine "Fliegende Blätter" by Braun & Schneider shows the pessimistic, sometimes progress-sceptical attitude of the otherwise so humorous artist, the winged poet's horse and symbol of the art of poetry Pegasos [also: Pegasus] lies dying of thirst on the ground next to a broken lyre and is mourned by hares and frogs; instead of him, a deadly and putti-swallowing viper rises into the air by means of a raven and an owl and carries a mermaid into an uncertain future, only a few pigs triumph in front of a melancholic backdrop of smoking factory chimneys and a funeral procession about the end of poetic poetry, technically finely executed mixed media (pencil, black ink and white heightening) on cardboard, signed, inscribed and dated "Herm. Vogel Pl. 94 [Plauen 1894]", titled by the artist in the lower margin, traces of mounting, somewhat yellowed and stained, unframed, sheet dimensions approx. 28.5 x 21.5 cm. Artist info: German artist. German draughtsman, illustrator and painter-poet (1854 Plauen - 1921 Krebes), studied briefly at the Dresden academy at Easter 1874, self-taught, 1877-78 study trip to Italy (Rome), created numerous illustrations, among others for the publisher Braun & Schneider Munich and for the magazine "Fliegende Blätter", 1909 appointed professor, founding member of the "Deutsche Künstlergesellschaft", member of the Verband Deutscher Illustratoren and the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft, exhibited at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung, among others, worked in Plauen, later in Dresden-Loschwitz and Krebes near Gutenfürst in Vogtland, source: Thieme-Becker, Frank Weiß "Malerei im Vogtland", register of the Dresden Academy, Boetticher, Dressler and Wikipedia.

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