{"id":21224,"date":"2022-05-08T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=21224"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T12:41:04","slug":"german-museum-for-caricature-and-the-art-of-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/lower-saxony\/hannover\/german-museum-for-caricature-and-the-art-of-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilhelm Busch – German Museum for Caricature and the Art of Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Georgenpalast is home to a museum that is a must-see during a visit to Hanover, the “Wilhelm Busch – German Museum of Caricature and Drawing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Who was Wilhelm Busch?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch came into the world in 1832. In the course of his life, he became one of Germany’s most influential humorous poets and illustrators. You could almost call him a pioneer of comics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Max<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Initially, Busch published his picture stories as broadsheets, but from 1864 they also appeared in book form. The stories of “Max und Moritz”, “Fipps, the Monkey” and “Die Fromme Helene” are particularly well-known to this day. Some of the sayings he used in his stories have even become idioms today. Particularly popular are, for example: “Becoming a father is not difficult, but being a father is” or “This was the first prank, but the second one follows immediately”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilhelm Busch died in 1908, his grave is in Mechtshausen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilhelm Busch – German Museum for Caricature and the Art of Drawing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1930, the Wilhelm Busch Society was founded in Hanover with the aim of “collecting Wilhelm Busch’s work, processing it scientifically and making it accessible to the public”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1937, the museum for the artist Wilhem Busch was finally opened in the city centre of Hanover. The museum was destroyed during the air raids on Hanover in 1943. Fortunately, the art objects had been removed from storage in good time beforehand and could thus be protected from destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1950, Busch’s works have now been exhibited in the Georgenpalais in Hanover’s Georgengarten. However, the museum’s collection not only consists of the works of Wilhelm Busch, but is expanded by a significant collection of satirical art by numerous national and international artists. There are now works from four centuries that are presented to museum visitors in the differently conceived special exhibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Wilhelm<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Permanent exhibition on the Wilhelm Busch Collection and the Wilhelm Busch Society<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, one of the most extensive collections of Wilhelm Busch’s works has been assembled in Hanover. It consists of 341 paintings, over 1300 drawings from nature, 51 manuscripts of picture stories, 193 manuscripts of poems and prose, 900 letters and a library with about 2500 books on the subject of Wilhelm Busch. Of course, not all of this is shown in the permanent exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n