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. 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. posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit (13 comments total) 18 users marked this as a favorite
 
Really great. You can almost see them moving and the whimsy (or whatever) is neat. The scribbly style makes it hard to tell what you are looking at at first, though.
posted by DU at 11:40 AM on July 3, 2008


The Dover books are well worth looking at, DU, if you can find them. The larger sizes clear up the 'scribbly'. Wicked sense of humor.
posted by tgyg at 11:58 AM on July 3, 2008


Wow! Wonderful, and mostly wonderfully strange. I like the very dry titles, too.

But there's... All but forgotten today, his work informed Disney's "Dance of the Hours" sequence in Fantasia.

That doesn't seem to make any sense. Flagged as HTML/display error.

posted by jack_mo at 12:04 PM on July 3, 2008


I thought this would be about Tomi Ungerer
posted by parmanparman at 12:04 PM on July 3, 2008 [1 favorite]


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posted by CCBC at 1:25 PM on July 3, 2008


Good post. Kley is a master.
posted by marxchivist at 2:46 PM on July 3, 2008


Not often can we say something is both sensual and macabre. There is both celebration and condemnation of overindulgence in so many of these. Attraction and repulsion.
posted by Xoebe at 2:53 PM on July 3, 2008


YES.
I still remember the weekend when my mother and I met for lunch and we each pulled out an amazing book we'd found at garage sales - she had found volume one and I had found volume two.
It's a cherished possession still. So lush, so wickedly and darkly humorous, so accurate and sensual.. just wonderful.
posted by Billegible at 3:02 PM on July 3, 2008


This is right up my alley, so thanks!
One tiny criticism: Your introduction doesn't show up on the front page. The post starts with 'Who?'
posted by carsonb at 3:15 PM on July 3, 2008


Random clicking within the links leads me to this, which as much as Kley is worth the price of admission.

Many thanks, I now have my work cut out for me.
posted by IndigoJones at 6:16 AM on July 4, 2008


I don't see him in my library (system(s)), so I guess I'm up a creek. Ah well, there are other classic drawing masters in there, I guess I'll have to content myself.
posted by DU at 7:11 PM on July 4, 2008


jack_mo, that is not an error. Disney had his artists study Kley's work for that sequence.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 5:38 PM on July 7, 2008


carsonb, my bad. I screwed it up. *blush* But hey, who loves you?
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 5:39 PM on July 7, 2008


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