Background
Wilhelm Busch was born on April 15, 1832 at Wiedensahl in Hanover (today Lower Saxony), Germany.
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The Genius of Wilhelm Busch: Comedy of Frustration : An English Anthology (English and German Edition)
(Drawings and humorous poems satirize human hypocrisy, pri...)
Drawings and humorous poems satirize human hypocrisy, pride, and pretentiousness, and tell stories about thwarted ambitions and desires
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Max and Moritz and Other Bad Boy Tales
(A new translation by Andy Gaus of these classic popular s...)
A new translation by Andy Gaus of these classic popular satirical Wilhelm Busch cartoons, with original illustrations, in black and white, throughout. This volume includes Max & Moritz a Bad-Boy Story in Seven Tricks; Ice Peter, A Funny Picture Story; Diogenes and the Bad Boys of Corinth; four poems from Critique of the Heart; and a biographical note on Wilhelm Busch.
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Buzz a Buzz; Or, The Bees
(Hail Muse etc Bring me Peggy My antient steed now somewha...)
Hail Muse etc Bring me Peggy My antient steed now somewhat leggy Not him who on Parnassus green Erst fed and drank of Hippocrene But such as to supply the trade At Nuremburg by scores are made I mount him and will now indite A Bee book for my own delight I ll sing of Johnny Dull his pig Made by his bees exceeding big And of his daughter fair Christine Of her queer lover Dicky Dean And of his nephew rogue Eugene Of honey robbers I will tell And bears and bull frogs ghosts as well All which my readers may discover Who con this true tale ten times over Or make ten other Bee Friends buy it For three and six I can supply it
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Wilhelm Busch
Edit ProfileEducation
He studied at the academies of Dusseldorf, Antwerp and Munich.
Career
In 1859 he joined the staff of Fliegende Blatter, the leading German comic paper. His humorous drawings and caricatures are remarkable for the extreme simplicity and expressiveness of his pen-and-ink line, which record with a few rapid scrawls the most complicated contortions of the body and the most transitory movement. His humorous illustrated poems, such as Max und Moritz, Der heilige Antonius von Padua, Die Fromme Helene, Hans Huckebein and Die Erlebnisse Knopps des Junggesellen, play, in the German nursery, the same part that Edward Lear's nonsense verses do in England.
Achievements
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He was together with Oberlander, the founder of modern German caricature. The types created by him have become household words in his country. He invented the series of comic sketches illustrating a story in scenes without words, which have inspired Caran d'Ache and other leading caricaturists. The Wilhelm Busch Prize and the Wilhelm Busch Museum help maintain his legacy.
Works
book
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Buzz a Buzz; Or, The Bees
(Hail Muse etc Bring me Peggy My antient steed now somewha...)
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Max and Moritz and Other Bad Boy Tales
(A new translation by Andy Gaus of these classic popular s...)
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The Genius of Wilhelm Busch: Comedy of Frustration : An English Anthology (English and German Edition)
(Drawings and humorous poems satirize human hypocrisy, pri...)
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Buzz a Buzz; Or, The Bees
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January 9, 1908 (aged 75) -
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