Drawings of Heinrich Kley Heinrich Kely, Heinrich Kley, H. Kley
Publisher: Dover Publications

His career took a decided turn in 1908. Long an acknowledged influence among illustrators, animators and cartoonists, he is probably known primarily for a couple of Dover Books collection of his sketchbook art that were published back in the 60s and are now hard to find. Introducing Heinrich Kley July 3, 2008 11:21 AM Subscribe · Who? Only one of the supreme German graphic artists of his time, that's all. Ah well, there are other classic drawing masters in there, I guess I'll have to content myself. Many of the original charms of Club 33 are gone now (Mrs. This idea came to my mind because of Heinrich Kley's way of manipulating scale and combining animal characteristics with humans, creating freak like creatures. Heinrich Kley (1863-1945?) was a German painter and cartoonist who began his career by painting conventional scenes, and by illustrating for German manufacturing. For those who don't know his work, Heinrich Kley (1863-1945) was the German artist who produced amazing pen and ink drawings of dancing elephants, alligators, satyrs, and nubile ladies. This post is another in my "who was famous in the 60's?" series. Between 1908 and World War I; a mysterious satirist, whose frequent inclusion of satyric figures may have been self-referential—much like Picasso's frequently-appearing metamorphosed bull—lending first-person intensity to the body of political and socially-charged drawings. The artist on this page Kley was a German newspaper cartoonist who lived from 1863 to 1945.I am excited to turn you on to this guy. The Heinrich Kley of record was not the Kley who was now producing volumes of sketches and submitting them to Die Jungend and the other Munich satirical periodical, Simplizissimus. They lived at roughly the same time and their ability was developed because printing in the popular press at that time did very well on ink drawings.