Author: Zille, Heinrich [1858-1929]
Title: Mein Milljöh : Bilder aus dem Berliner Leben
Description: Berlin, Dr. Selle-Eysler, (1922). 11. Auflage, Later boards.. 25x19cm, 120 pp. Recent binder's blind boards with original front & rear cover wrappers bound-in. Binding is in VG condition.. Some minor rubbing. Some light page browning. Good. ¶ Mit einem Vorwort von Georg Hermann. 11. vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage.An album of cartoons of Weimar-era Berlin proletarian life. ["Rudolf Heinrich Zille (January 10, 1858 - August 9, 1929), German illustrator and photographer, was born in Radeburg near Dresden...Zille became best known for his (often funny) drawings, catching the characteristics of people, especially "stereotypes", mainly from Berlin and many of them published in the German weekly satirical newspaper Simplicissimus. He was first to portray the desperate social environment of the Berlin Mietskasernen ( literally "tenement barracks"), buildings packed with sometimes a dozen persons per room who fled from the rural regions to the rising Gründerzeit industrial metropolis only to find even deeper poverty in the developing proletarian class. His special talent was the scathingly humorous portrayal of what were in reality quite unfunny life conditions of handicapped beggars, tuberculous prostitutes, menial labourers, and especially their children, making the best they could of life and resolutely refusing to give up...." - wikipedia].

Keywords: German Social History, Berlin, Art History, Weimar Germany, Caricatures, Cartoons, Cartooning, ,