14 Facts About Hermann-Paul

Hermann-Paul was a well-known illustrator whose work appeared in numerous newspapers and periodicals.

Hermann-Paul's illustrations relied on blotches of pure black with minimum outline to define his animated marionettes.

Hermann-Paul worked in Ripolin enamel paint, watercolors, woodcuts, lithographs, drypoint engraving, oils, and ink.

Recent efforts to catalog the work of Hermann-Paul reveal an artist of considerable scope.

Hermann-Paul attacked monarchs, paupers, politicians, clerics and elements of the established order.

Hermann-Paul was a staunch defender of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, whom he considered an innocent man.

Hermann-Paul channeled that energy into his art and he proceeded to document the war.

Hermann-Paul would continue to work in wood until age started to get the best of him in the late 1930s.

Hermann-Paul did a sizeable number of illustrations for Candide in the interwar period, but these were the exception rather than the rule.

Hermann-Paul's first major post-war work was a morbid series of woodcuts in book form, The Dance With Death.

Unable to mend old fences with the political left and not disposed toward the tendencies of the right, Hermann-Paul abandoned politics in the interwar period.

Hermann-Paul's inspirations become more literary than journalistic and his style evolved from a belle epoque line to a modernist simplification.

Hermann-Paul practiced some painting on canvas, but it was never a form he mastered.

Interest has recently surged since Hermann-Paul's work was rediscovered by a larger public through the auction of his earlier pieces in October 2000 in Chartres.