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Joseph Keppler was born on February 1, 1838 in Vienna, Austria, the son of a confectioner, John Keppler, and his Hungarian wife, Josepha Pellwein.
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Excerpt from A Selection of Cartoons From Puck Few of the English cartoonists, for instance, have been caricaturists of any account. The greatest of them all, John Tenniel, is a cartoonist pure and simple - that is, one who draws allegories or parables. In his delightful Alice in Wonderland work, he shows his power of caricature; but in his cartoons he is classically faithful to nature, save for just sufficient accentuation to point his satiric intent. And in the United States, up to twenty years ago, the prime idea of the cartoonist was simply to express in drawing a figure of speech and the more realistically the better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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8x12 inch Photographic Print from a high-quality scan of the original. Title: The Cannon boom. Are you on? / Keppler. Creator(s): Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist Date Created/Published: N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1908 April 22. Summary: Illustration shows Joseph G. Cannon standing on a small platform labeled 'Wall Street' at the end of a long two-handled accordion-like folding extension device manipulated by J. Pierpont Morgan who is standing in New York and using the tool to transport Cannon to the 'Chicago Convention'. Notes: Title from item. Illus. in: Puck, v. 63, no. 1625 (1908 April 22), cover. Copyright 1908 by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney,--1836-1926. Morgan, J. Pierpont--(John Pierpont),--1837-1913. Republican National Convention--(14th :--1908 :--Chicago, Ill.) Political conventions--1900-1910. Presidential elections--1900-1910. Political patronage--1900-1910. Special interests--1900-1910. Capitalists & financiers--1900-1910. Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--1900-1910. Cartoons (Commentary)--1900-1910. Magazine covers--1900-1910. Offset photomechanical prints--Color--1900-1910. Periodical illustrations--1900-1910. Bookmark /2011647300/ Bookmark:2011647300 Bookmark:2011647300 Note: Some images may have white bars on the sides or top if the original image does not conform to the 8x12 dimensions. Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph Keppler Cartoons Classic Anthology is a compilation of caricatures and cartoons by artist and satirist Joseph Keppler from newspapers and magazines such as "Puck."
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Original lithograph cover from a 1884 Puck - COVER ONLY! Illustrated by Joseph Keppler with caption at bottom THE OPENING OF THE AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN. Whitlaw Reid feeds whiskey to the Irish Dynamiter. Sign on wall reads THE SPREAD OF AMERICAN IDEAS AMONG THE IRISH. Measures W10 1/8 x H13 1/4 inches including border. See my photographs (2) of this listing on main page. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-15Drw#14) rareviewbooks
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Joseph Keppler was born on February 1, 1838 in Vienna, Austria, the son of a confectioner, John Keppler, and his Hungarian wife, Josepha Pellwein.
In 1856 Keppler enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, where he acquired a good technical foundation in drawing.
Keppler had the talent for both acting and drawing and he vacillated for many years between the two professions. In an attempt to get to Italy where he wished to study art, he twice joined strolling theatrical companies, once traveling through Styria and the Tyrol, and once into Hungary, but in neither case reaching his destination. His father had emigrated to New Frankfort, Salina County, Missouri, after the Revolution of 1848, where he farmed and kept the general store. In 1867 young Keppler followed him. Shortly after his arrival he went to St. Louis with the intention of studying medicine, but he was drawn once more into acting, at which he was successful, and from that into managing, at which he was not.
On August 28, 1869, the first number of his first humorous weekly appeared. This was Die Vehme, Illustriertes Wochenblatt für Scherz und Ernst. After a year it failed, and in March 1871 Keppler began to publish Puck, Illustrierte Wochenschrift, which lasted until February 1872. Shortly thereafter, he went to New York. There he was employed by Frank Leslie and by 1875 was preparing nearly all of the cover cartoons for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, specializing in attacks upon Grant and party graft. He still desired a paper of his own, however, and in 1876 he and Adolph Schwarzmann broke away from the Leslie publications and founded another Puck, Humoristisches Wochenblatt. Schwarzmann supplied the financial and business support, and permitted Keppler complete editorial freedom.
The German Puck was so successful that in March 1877 an English edition was inaugurated which survived until 1918, twenty-two years longer than its German predecessor. Previous humorous weeklies had had but one large cartoon. Puck had three. Formerly cartoons had been cut in wood. Puck's were lithographed, at first in black and white, later with two colors produced by woodblocks, and finally with several colors lithographically produced. Its main contribution to comic art, however, was not mechanical. Keppler brought with him from Austria the German conception of cartooning, in which caricature played a large part. He also brought with him a sense of satire unrepressed by the primness of nineteenth-century America. As a result, particularly in the early numbers when Keppler was drawing all the cartoons and some of the advertisements, Puck had a foreign and exuberant flavor quite different from its rivals. Eventually the magazine attracted the contributions of several good American cartoonists, and a number of artists were imported from Vienna, but until Keppler's death, his own personality was to some degree reflected in its pages.
From the beginning it espoused the causes of the national Democratic party and lampooned both Tammany and the Republicans. At no time, however, were its jibes purely partisan. Monopolies, labor unions, woman's suffrage, Catholicism, camp meetings, and all forms of graft, extravagance, and injustice were at some time ridiculed. Keppler's cartoons were usually large, with many figures illustrating the parable. They were always composed with a certain sweep of design, and delicately finished. In 1893 Keppler overtaxed his strength in the management of the World's Fair Puck, and early in the following year he died at his home in New York City.
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Keppler married Pauline Pfau in July 1870.