Fliegende Blätter

The Fliegende Blätter ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets")^[1] was a German weekly^[2] humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Count Franz Pocci, Hermann Vogel, Carl Spitzweg, Julius Klinger, Edmund Harburger, Adolf Oberländer and others. It was published by Verlag Braun & Schneider [de], a company belonging to the wood engraver Kaspar Braun and illustrator Friedrich Schneider.^[3] Aimed at the German bourgeoisie, it reached a maximum circulation of c.95,000 copies by 1895. It merged in 1928 with a competitor, the Meggendorfer-Blätter^[2] and was published until 1944 as Fliegende Blätter und Meggendorfer-Blätter by the Schreiber-Verlag [de] in Esslingen am Neckar.^[4]

Sample illustrations

The first known instance of the rabbit–duck illusion, anonymous illustration from the 23 October 1892 issue
Mahler conducting by Hans Schließmann [de], 1901
Illustration by Hermann Stockmann [de], 1903
Illustration by Alexander Otrey (1877–1939), 1903

^ Thierry Smolderen, The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, University Press of Mississippi, 2014, p. 114.
^ ^a ^b Levy, Richard S. (2005). Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO. pp. 230–32. ISBN 9781851094394. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
^ "Fliegende Blätter". Harald Fischer Verlag. Archived from the original on 21 September 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
^ Koch, Ursula E. [in German] (2013). "Fliegende Blätter (1844[sic]–1944)". In Benz, Wolfgang (ed.). Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Vol. 6. Walter de Gruyter. p. 201. ISBN 9783110305357.

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