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Wilhelm Busch
Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day.
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culture · German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter (1832–1908) · poet · painter · essayist · writer · autobiographer · illustrator · children's writer · draftsperson · caricaturist · exlibrist · also Wilhelm Busch, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch, Vilʹgelʹm Bush, W. Busch, busch w., wilh. busch
Born 15 April 1832 · Died 9 January 1908 · Q109540
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2025· 2 entries
Awarded Will Eisner Hall of Fame (2025).
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Busch was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame
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2007· 1 entry
There were numerous re-publications of Busch works
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1969· 1 entry
Max and Moritz "participated" in late 1960s student activism
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1958· 1 entry
The Christian Democratic Union used the Max and Moritz characters for a campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia, the same year that the East German satirical magazine Eulenspiegel used them to caricature black labour
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1908· 2 entries
Died 1908-01-09.
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His work was dominated by prose and poems
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1898· 1 entry
Together with his aging sister Fanny Nöldeke, he accepted Bassermann's suggestion to move into a large parsonage in Mechtshausen
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1896· 1 entry
And signed over all publication rights to Bassermann Verlag for 50,000 gold marks
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1891· 1 entry
Composed of several small grouped episodes, rather than one linear storyline
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1881· 1 entry
After he disrupted a variety show and subsequently made a scene through the effects of alcohol
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1877· 1 entry
In a last attempt to be a serious artist, he took a studio in Munich
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1875· 1 entry
Was the Knopp Trilogy, about the life of Tobias Knopp: Adventures of a Bachelor (Abenteuer eines Junggesellen), Mr
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1874· 1 entry
Produced the short illustrated tale, Diddle-Boom
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1873· 1 entry
Busch returned several times to Munich, and took part in the intense life of the Munich Art Society as an escape from provincial life
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1860· 1 entry
“s Jewish figures are merely stereotypical, one of a number of stereotypes, such as the”
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1857· 1 entry
And 1858, as his position seemed to be without prospects, he contemplated emigration to Brazil to keep bees
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1853· 1 entry
After suffering heavily from typhus, he abandoned his Antwerp studies and returned penniless to Wiedensahl
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1832· 1 entry
Born 1832-04-15.
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1830· 1 entry
About 1830 Friedrich Wilhelm Busch, the illegitimate son of a farmer, settled in Wiedensahl after completing a business apprenticeship in the nearby village of Loccum.
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1820· 1 entry
His widow continued to run the shop with Henriette
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1817· 2 entries
Johann Georg Kleine, Wilhelm Busch's maternal grandfather, settled in the small village of Wiedensahl, where in 1817 he bought a thatched half-timbered house where Wilhelm Busch was to be born 15 years later.
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Bought a thatched half-timbered house where Wilhelm Busch was to be born 15 years later
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