Pictures of the Jobsiade

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Examination of the candidate job, individual scene

Pictures for the Jobsiade is a picture story published in 1872 by the humorous poet and draftsman Wilhelm Busch . It was published in 1872 by Bassermann Verlag , which was headed by Wilhelm Busch's long-time friend Otto Friedrich Bassermann . After the great success of the anticlerical picture stories Saint Anthony of Padua and The Pious Helene , this picture story was also a great success. Wilhelm Busch was a scandal author in German-speaking countries at the time of publication. The publisher Moritz Schauenburg was indicted after the publication of St. Anthony. This did not happen in the case of the pious Helene , but the picture story nevertheless caused great offense.

background

The basis of Wilhelm Busch's picture story is the Jobsiade , a text written between 1783 and 1784 by the Bochum doctor and writer Carl Arnold Kortum . In it, Kortum describes the life, opinions and deeds of Hieronymus Jobs, the candidate, and how he once earned a lot of fame, and finally died as a night watchman in Sulzburg . It is the story of a failure who consistently fails in all situations. This descending line of life was in contradiction to the general mood of the early days , which was characterized by new beginnings and upswing. With painter Klecksel, Wilhelm Busch again took up such a descending line of life in his last picture story.

Originally it was planned that Wilhelm Busch would only illustrate the original text by Kortum. Wilhelm Busch, who at that time wrote the texts for his picture stories himself, was therefore not very friendly with this work. He was very familiar with the Jobsiade. In Düsseldorf he had met Johann Peter Hasenclever , among others , who had painted numerous pictures illustrated by the Jobsiade. It was only when Otto Friedrich Bassermann suggested that he compress the original and write his own verses in his characteristic tone that Wilhelm Busch was able to complete the picture story in just a few weeks.

effect

Today Wilhelm Busch is often referred to as the grandfather or great-grandfather of comics and cartoons. The reputation is based to a large extent on the picture story Der Virtuos published in the Fliegende Blätter in 1865 . However, a similar importance is attached to individual scenes in the pictures of the Jobsiade. At Jobs' theological exam, twelve clergymen in white wigs sit opposite him. Your examinee answers her questions, which are by no means difficult, so stupidly that every answer triggers a synchronous shake of the head of the examiners. The wigs start to move indignantly and the scene becomes a movement study that is reminiscent of Eadweard Muybridge 's phased photographs . Muybridge had begun his movement studies in 1872, but did not publish them until 1893, so that this flowing transition from drawing to cinematography is also a pioneering artistic achievement by Busch.

expenditure

  • Wilhelm Busch: Pictures for the Jobsiade. In: Rolf Hochhuth (Ed.): Wilhelm Busch, Complete Works and a selection of the sketches and paintings in two volumes. Volume 2: What is popular is also allowed. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1959, pp. 98–147.

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  1. ↑ Weissweiler, p. 201.
  2. ↑ Weissweiler, p. 204 and p. 205.

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