Word: simplicissimus
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...time he was 23, Mann had already struck his friends as "grave." The brief period he spent as editorial assistant on the satirical magazine Simplicissimus only seemed to increase his specific gravity. The summers he spent in Italy seemed to make him even more German. To go south in a Mann story became a symbol for going to the devil...
...such sallies were too infrequent and for a satiric magazine, lack od laughter is a fate worse than death. Accepting this fate, Simplicissimus' owners announced that after the next issue, the magazine will cease publication...
...Simplicissimus, often shortened familiarly to Simpl, is the honored name of Germany's world-famous satirical magazine. Before World War I, it dabbed acid fun at Kaiser Wilhelm II, and for its lese majesty was frequently banned. It took on new teeth in the 1920s just in time to start potshotting at the rise of Nazism. One Simpl view of Hitler showed the top of his head lifted up to reveal a void within. "Isn't it strange," remarked the magazine, "that you can make such a lot of trouble with so little stuff?" It was not strange...
...subject matter never changed, his attitudes toward it did, as can be seen in his first major museum retrospective, now at the University of California at Los Angeles. For the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus, he drew scathing, unsympathetic cartoons of prostitutes. Slowly, his vision of women softened to match their contours. As his nudes grew ever more evanescent in powdery pastels, they also waxed ever more erotic. "His palette is like a strip of fog," said another artist. In time, Pascin perfected the art of sfumato, the soft, smoky blending of tones from light into dark practiced by Da Vinci...
Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich...