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the-evil-clergyman · 2 years

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Walpurgisnacht by Heinrich Kley (1923)

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enchantedbook · 1 year

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The Wild Hunt by Heinrich Kley, 1923

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fromthedust · 2 months

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Heinrich Kley (German, 1863-1945)'

Elektrodämonen (Electric Demons) - Der Orchideengarten #23 - 1920

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lux-vitae · 2 years

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Walpurgisnacht (Walpurgis Night) by Heinrich Kley (1923)

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walzerjahrhundert · 11 months

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Heinrich Kley

Cover illustration for Jugend

1910

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whateverbringsyouthroughthenight · 1 year

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[1932] Cover design ‘Maskierte am Tisch’ (masked character at table), Vol. 37, Jugend, No. 5, p.65, January 26. Heinrich Kley

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tomoleary · 1 year

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Heinrich Kley (1863 - 1945)

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the-cricket-chirps · 14 days

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Fedor Flinzer, Cover, Goethe’s Reineke Fuchs, 1881

Heinrich Kley, Cover, Reineke Fuchs, ca. 1948

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victusinveritas · 1 month

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Art by Heinrich Kley (1863-1945)

Kley's self-portrait, 1910.

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desolatus · 1 month

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Cloudburst , C. 1920

Heinrich Kley

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mask131 · 9 months

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Fantasy sights: Heinrich Kley

Heinrich Kley was a German illustrator and cartoonist of the turn of the century (19th-20th). While he started out his career with very conventional pieces, he is most famous today for his more extravagant, caricatural, absurd pieces denoting a love for dark humor, grotesqueness and strange situations. Heinrich Kley is notably known as "the man who inspired Disney", because Walt Disney had a private collection of Heinrich Kley drawings, that he used as inspiration for his movies (such as his "Fantasia").

As you can see, Greco-Roman themes such as centaurs or Bacchus and satyrs are quite repeated throughout his work, alongside his love of anthropomorphic animals (or at least animals acting like humans) and his enjoyment of devilish scenes (demons, witches...)