@@petebeard Erm. Pete? Double-check your timestamp because a quite different Adolf is named there, in place of Hengeler! Edit: Oh. You did notice that! Well, RUclips does it's usual amazing job! Just like these risible 'Translate into English' tools that have just turned up in the comments.
@@josefschiltz2192 Yes, and I must admit to finding it funny, much to the consternation of the other viewer who alerted me to it. Either way I don't think (or maybe if I'm honest don't really care) about such things, and assume they are not in my control.
@@michaelguerrieri3486 Hello and thanks for the suggestion. I like his work a lot but to feature in this series illustrators must be born before 1910, and he misses that window by a considerable margin. And as far as I know he's very much alive, so he's off limits for a solo video too .I did feature him in the second part of the Brothers Grimm videos though if that's any comfort.
These are terrific. I feel I know all these artists but really just enjoyed the styles. The pictures lead you into stories so well. Please keep producing these.
Your channel is like a box full of favourite chocolates, with the quandary: which to choose? Dipping in every so often brings invariably unexpected delights. Adolf Hengele, for instance, (yet again a name I did not know) produced drawings very reminiscent of those of Wilhelm Busch - and even his lovely paintings carry a Busch-like quality. Great, as always
What a lovely analogy, and one I will treasure.It's particularly pleasing when a viewer clearly understands what the unsung heroes series is intended to be. As with those chocolates it would be unrealistic to expect everyone to like every illustrator featured - I certainly don't. It's to celebrate the diversity that lies at the heart of these little collections.
10:51 I didnt even know the pochoir method existed! after some googling, im amazed at the quality and detail he managed on his illustrations! I wish there was a video of whatever they did to be able to get such detail. I imagine the methods havent changed much, so my hypotesys is they would cut the pieces and "draw" on them to get the texture/countour line, then paint them very carefully as to get the colour variation? (instead of just rolling over the stencil pieces with a single colour.). For example on the woman´s veil, the transparency/colours of the people behind were probably "drawn" (to give it that line countour) and then painted with a brush so the pink behind the veil isnt so saturated? Sorry for bothering you with this, maybe you dont know the answer but still I find it so fascinating! its such a time consuming process I cant believe they would do that haha As always, thank you for sharing, Pete!
Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment and question. I had never heard of pochoirs either until I started making these videos and the term kept cropping up in the context of early 20th century French illustration, and I was shocked at just how much was printed that way. Like many of what I think of as the more esoteric ways of making pictures I'm fairly ignorant about it, but there are several 'how to make a pochoir print' videos on youtube which give greater insight than I ever could. What baffles me is that they could have just created the images as ink and watercolour illustrations and printed them with offset litho. I presume it was way cheaper, but I don't really know.
"What you're trying to achieve" is nothing short of a major contribution to illustrators, artists and historical relevance! I learn and appreciate what I discover in your presentations. Tnx!
Hi Mike and I hope you are right. I know I've raised awareness about illustration and those who have created it to an extent, but I sometimes wonder why the videos haven't been a bit more popular - especially among the young. But then I found that to be the case when I taught at university too.
@@petebeard The youth today are a weird bunch. They want most everything spoon fed to them. Those 'with talent' don't seem to care about where anything originated. Just my opinion. Or the historical environment that either added or challenged their careers. Makes me feel even more like a dinosaur! My Best! And Happy 4th!! I hope you enjoy your day off!!
Hello and thanks for your favourable comment. I also really like Hengeler's work. Some of those manic crowd scenes wouldn't look out of place in a 60's copy of Mad.
@@petebeard Certainly. It would seem just as the general talent from the late 19th and early 20th century illustrated periodicals where nearing the end of their time here a new generation was just growing up to carry some of that magic here in the US. E.C. was there at the right time and place to scoop some of the best talent who had probably consumed those visual recordings as kids. Who will run with that torch today? I hope that made some sense. Thank you for taking this information of rendering in pen and ink and bringing it to a new generation with such skill.
Finding this series has been like finding a shining beacon of light! Congratulations and thank you for making such a body of beautiful and informative videos 😍
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation, and it really is a tonic when viewers such as yourself let me know that you enjoy the content. I must say I like the look of your cutout paper work too.
@@petebeard thank you so much and honestly, your channel is fabulous. In fact it is directly affecting my work. I have been developing some pochoir piece and after a few dead ends it is really working! Good paper is the key. There are illustrators I have loved since about 17 and when a few pop up on your videos, with extra info that I can learn, then it is brilliant! Well done for such a useful and informative body of work.
13:49 thrilled to see this little gouache here. I have the original and have always been curious to know what it illustrated. Longtime follower thank you the library you have created, an incredible resource
after a half day of looking for it, realized I sold it a couple of years ago and had identified it as a cover for programs at the Theatre Du Nouvel Ambigu. Now it seems I only have an uninteresting carriage scene by him, but I have a very good steeplechase watercolor by his brother, Jacques, that you'd be welcome to use if you plan to cover him in future.
@@liveoak4124 Thanks for the additional information. I didnt even know he had a brother, and of course I'm always on the lookout for other candidates. However a quick look suggests there's probably not enough material to feature him in the series. I'll have a deeper dig and see what I can unearth. Thanks again.
Thanks Pete for more educational and entertaining insights into illustrators that I was unaware of. I particularly liked the works of Lucian Bernhard and Pierre Brissaud. Someone else has already made a comment here that your series enriches our lives and I second that.
Another wonderful video, Pete. I'm always struck by the sense of light and atmosphere some of these illustrators achieve with just more or less flat color. I was especially taken by the simple posters of Bernhard and the illustrations of Brissaud. It's always an enlightening education how these early illustrators battled-and succeeded- the simple technology of printing and its limitations at the turn of the century. As I've mentioned before (ad nauseam, I fear; my apologies!), it wasn't just the talent of drawing and painting that makes these artists so competent, but also the knowledge of the printing process and taking advantage of the limitations. Bravo! Thanks again, Pete. Hope your summer has kicked off with good things. Bloody hot and humid here in Provence, but with my sketch pad, paints, some shady terraces at my local café-and the occasional G &T-I'm surviving. Have a great week!
Hi again Doug and thanks for your comment. If nothing else, making these videos has really opened my eyes to the many processes that have been used in the creation of printed images. Pochoir in particular seems insanely laborious - but the results of Brissaud and his contemporaries are undeniably justification for its use. And summer here has currently fizzled out after a promising start. So don't rub it in about Provence. Mind you I hear Paris and other cities are finding it fairly warm right now...
@@petebeard HA! Don't know if you made the Paris quip as a joke, but yes, it is warm there, but politically; you've heard of the riots and car burnings there the last couple days, yes? And I have plans to be there for a few days soon. Ah, well, such is life. Stay safe and take care and thanks again for the wonderful histories.
British understatement has always amused me as I'm so often prone to hyperbole. Specifically, when an illustrator has a career-making moment, you always say, "It did nothing to dimish his reputation." Meanwhile I'm hearing this... *"He hits a hard line drive into center field! It's going...it's going...it's GONE - a Grand Slam home run!!"* 😂🤣
Another homerun video...Pete,...thank you for bringing these to life the memories of long ago illustrators. I have finally caught up to the present video... I sometimes scroll through a second and third time to isolate a certain image - this had so many! Thank you!
Your videos are the kind I wish I had been able to watch when I was studying commercial illustration, many years ago. It is never too late to learn more about illustration. Your videos take me back to school again. Many thanks.🙂
I just watch a very long and disturbing video about a death penalty case where the convicted killer (on death row) is probably innocent. I needed something that would lighten my mood. So I turned to you. Thank you, Pete, for another wonderful video on one of my great passions - illustration. ❤ Shirley
Hello and many thabks for your continued appreciation. if the channel can provide a little light relief from the unpleasantness that seems to pervade the world I'll take a certain pride in that.
Sad to know that war seems to have taken Adolf Hengeler's joy of drawing so he just decided to start painting more melancholic scenes. Speaking of joy, your videos area always a nice treat.
Hello, and thanks a lot for your comment. When I read about his bitterness about the war and how few of his students returned I was reminded of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Really liked Hengeler's style, humor, and knowing cartoons, esp for such a young person, but his painting of a loaded clothesline being admired by a bow-tied gardener was the winning image. I could look at that every day and wonder what the story was. Maybe painted just to capture the lovely morning light and color of the moment. Or the socks? It doesn't matter. Simply delightful.
Hello again and I really liked some of Hengeler's more manic crowd scenes, and yes that painting tickled me too. Not often you see art with a sense of humour.
@@petebeard Yes, that's the core of it, isn't it? Without the sox, it may be just a person admiring the sun through the white clothing, perfectly acceptable by Society. But add in a pair of dark sox over-lapping the admirably painted sun-drenched articles and you've got a query, a dilemma for the 'discerning' to try and describe away. He was a genius. I found the painting elsewhere and grabbed for my collection but also saw he had a penchant for lots of baby-type beings (not putto as such) doing all kinds of labor around humans. Not sure what that was about, didn't look into it. It can stay mysterious.
Thanks for posting Pete. I stumbled across your channel a few months ago and absolutely love your work. Illustrations are my favourite form of art. Some illustrators I recognized others I haven’t. Thanks again.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I'm very glad you collided with the channel and I hope you'll stay with it as there's a ton more stuff in the pipeline.
Thanks again, Pete! - Loved Brissaud's grey tones for shade and shadow, that actually accentuate the colours... Beltrame is one of the few Italian illustrators you've covered, part of the WWII Axis' countries, and having participated in the War efforts (graphically, I might add). That said, there may be so many more talents that existed in the Mediterranean regions too.
Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment. I'm not sure if I'm clear about what you are saying about the axis illustrators. I thought I'd covered them pretty thoroughly either as part of the unsung series or in the WW2 propaganda video, but maybe I've misunderstood your point.
@@petebeard Good God! - then, it's surely an oversight on my part. And admittedly, not having perused through all 96 episodes, I must mine them out! Thank you!
Thank you Pete! All the artists mentioned are new to me, save of course for Lucian Bernhard whos works I studied both in typography course and in history of graphic design along with Hans Rudi Erdt and Ludwig Hohlwein. Your work is really awesome!
Hello again and many thanks for your continued appreciation of the channel content. And thanks too for jogging my memory - I haven't covered Erdt in the series - yet!
It strikes me that as formidable artistically as all these latest featured titans are in the series, equally worthy of mention is that they lived amazingly adaptive lives. As with other previous entries, you've shown us that a fair share of them moved often, sometimes from one continent to another, at a time when long distance travel was not as easily implemented a proposition as now. They were often in the midst of wars, either actively of as proxy representatives via their art, and frequently had varying degrees of success in both commercial illustration and fine art careers when the line between those two worlds was more indelible than perhaps now. Achille Beltrame's dual role as inventive illustrator and disaster/conflict documentarian was especially impressive. You referenced Walter Molino as his gifted successor at the end of that segment--is he to be featured in the future, perhaps, or has he been showcased already and I missed him? It goes without saying that you have served up another masterpiece Pete. I wholeheartedly echo the many of us here who express deep ongoing gratitude for your superb accomplishments, both in choice and presentation.
Hello again and many thanks for your comment and observations about the featured illustrators. Your appreciation and continued support are very welcome. Regarding Molino I'm sorry to say he was born just too late to qualify for the unsung heroes series (cut off DOB 1910). But he's too good to ignore and when/if I ever finish my history of Italian illustration series he'll certainly be among those covered.
@@petebeard Much appreciated! I indeed did forget the sensible timeframe for this series (which has allowed so much brilliance to truly shine), my oversight. Thank you for the note on possibly seeing Molino in your future Italian illustration series!
I was totally smitten by Pierre Brissaud. I'm a big Tintin fan, and I see a lot of the style that would have influenced Hergé in his work. As you said, there's narrative implication everywhere in the examples you selected.
You hope I've found something to hold my interest. When you release one of your videos I stop whatever I'm doing, make myself a coffee and then sit watch and enjoy your video. So I'd say you've pretty much achieved what you set out to do. As always.
In my computer work I've used my share of "Bernhard" typefaces, but this is the first I knew anything about their designer. A fine presentation: fascinating what changes the "Great War" made -- or did not make -- in the styles and subjects of these men.
Hello again and I've long admired the work of Bernhard and others from his time who made no distinction between the more formal demands of graphic design and the more playful aspects of illustration. In many ways the term 'commercial artist' was more inclusive and expressive. Milton Glaser springs to mind, too.
@@wynnschaible Hello and no you didn't miss it, as for now he's yet another name in an apparently endless list of illustrator/designers to be featured. I just hope I live long enough to cover at least most of them.
Hey Mr. Beard, I have two things I’m interested in. The first being; why the horses? I have nothing against them! Just curious if you have a particular affinity or if you just began to notice a theme at one point so you ran with it. Next, I recently noticed some incredible illustration techniques used for a still used for Southern Nights by Glen Campbell here on RUclips. I immediately wondered if you had come across it and if you had any information on it. Thanks again for all your work!
I realize that that was not very clear. The song Southern Nights by Glen Campbell, if you search it on RUclips, there’s a version that has what is maybe an album cover containing some striking illustration. I know you’re a musician yourself and I wonder if you know anything about the artist. Also, I don’t know if you’re aware but the auto generated (?) chapters in the timeline of this video tell me that the first artist here is Adolf hitler… but since Mr. Hingler died in ‘29 I assume that these are not the same person. I just read the description and see that you know. 😂
OK then - second query first... Gary van der Steur created the image and it is the cover of the album by that name (I think it may be a re-packaged edition). And regarding the horses they are not in fact invariably horses and the riders aren't always human, but it did pan out that way. The original idea was an heroic image and I figured the hero on his trusty steed would do. Then it turned into a game /challenge for me to see how long I could keep it up.
While I had seen before some of those illustrations from Achille Beltrame, I did not know that they were actually all done by the same artist; somehow, I thought it was just the "default artstyle" of the pubblication La domenica del corriere.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. If you haven't already seen it you might enjoy Walter Molino's work, who took over when Beltrame retired.
Hello Eamonn, and your appreciation is always welcome - but it's not compulsory, however welcome. So please don't feel obliged to comment on every video.
Her Pete, do you know any black or African illustration/illustrator. I have been searching around the internet and have not found many artists/ painters
Hello, and that's quite a major question. So far in the series I've covered George Herriman, who was of mixed race, in 30, and Elmer Simms Campbell in 20. In the pipeline there are only another two candidates so far, namely Aaron Douglas and Pamela Colman Smith. Obviously in the period I cover there was only a sigificant black population inthe USA and at that time racism was the norm, so however lamentable it's hardly surprising. These days I think the situation is a lot more equitabe across Europe and the USA, although modern times aren't my territory. Jerry Pinckney was a major modern figure though and I'm sure there are more who fit the category. Africa, like China and a few other countries is a closed book it seems. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I obviously didn't make myself clear - I think true B&W is wonderful in the right hands. It was a reference to the fact that those frog pictures for kids' books were halftone grey washes, and consequently as drab as the English weather.
I would like to warn you that for whatever reason, RUclips chapters labelled the section dedicated to Adolf Hengeler with the name of a different, lesser Austrian painter better known for... other work.
Hello and thanks a lot for that. I laughed out loud when I saw it and it just proves how moronic youtube and its minions are. I'd complain to them but it would probably be a waste of time and energy.
Hello, and unfortunately he was born too late to qualify for inclusion. The last year of birth is 1910 so he missed the bus (1918). But I think I may have mentioned him in my origins of fantasy art video.
@@petebeard oh i'll take a look at that video! Roy has many great influences from the golden age. one of them being Norman Lindsay, I think you done a video on him
You enrich all our lives with your series. I love these videos.
Hello and many thanks for your positive response to the channel. It's most welcome.
@@petebeard Erm. Pete? Double-check your timestamp because a quite different Adolf is named there, in place of Hengeler!
Edit: Oh. You did notice that! Well, RUclips does it's usual amazing job! Just like these risible 'Translate into English' tools that have just turned up in the comments.
@@josefschiltz2192 Yes, and I must admit to finding it funny, much to the consternation of the other viewer who alerted me to it. Either way I don't think (or maybe if I'm honest don't really care) about such things, and assume they are not in my control.
@@petebeard As the late Daniel Dennett once observed about the emergence of true artificial intelligence, "Don't hold your breath!"
👍Thank you!🇬🇧🇵🇹
(Sundays aren't the same without your videos.)
Hello and thanks for the comment. If I could make them faster I would post one every Sunday.
You're creating treasures for this and future generations with your videos, Pete. I love 'em!
Hello and that's a very nice thing to say. It's great to be appreciated for what I'm trying to achieve with the channel.
@@petebeard please do an article on gris grimley.
@@michaelguerrieri3486 Hello and thanks for the suggestion. I like his work a lot but to feature in this series illustrators must be born before 1910, and he misses that window by a considerable margin. And as far as I know he's very much alive, so he's off limits for a solo video too .I did feature him in the second part of the Brothers Grimm videos though if that's any comfort.
These are terrific. I feel I know all these artists but really just enjoyed the styles. The pictures lead you into stories so well. Please keep producing these.
Hello and many thanks for your comment. There are plenty more in the pipeline so i won;t be stopping any time soon, unless I fall off my perch.
Your channel is like a box full of favourite chocolates, with the quandary: which to choose? Dipping in every so often brings invariably unexpected delights. Adolf Hengele, for instance, (yet again a name I did not know) produced drawings very reminiscent of those of Wilhelm Busch - and even his lovely paintings carry a Busch-like quality.
Great, as always
What a lovely analogy, and one I will treasure.It's particularly pleasing when a viewer clearly understands what the unsung heroes series is intended to be. As with those chocolates it would be unrealistic to expect everyone to like every illustrator featured - I certainly don't. It's to celebrate the diversity that lies at the heart of these little collections.
Only on this youtube chanel I watch the videos in high definition and the screen set to maximum brightness.
Thanks for the great content!
Hello and that's great to hear. Thanks a lot.
I can't believe I'm just discovering this series! Thank you so much for this delightful introduction to so many wonderful artists.
Hello and you are very welcome. I hope you continue to discover illustrators whose work you enjoy.
10:51 I didnt even know the pochoir method existed! after some googling, im amazed at the quality and detail he managed on his illustrations! I wish there was a video of whatever they did to be able to get such detail. I imagine the methods havent changed much, so my hypotesys is they would cut the pieces and "draw" on them to get the texture/countour line, then paint them very carefully as to get the colour variation? (instead of just rolling over the stencil pieces with a single colour.). For example on the woman´s veil, the transparency/colours of the people behind were probably "drawn" (to give it that line countour) and then painted with a brush so the pink behind the veil isnt so saturated?
Sorry for bothering you with this, maybe you dont know the answer but still I find it so fascinating! its such a time consuming process I cant believe they would do that haha
As always, thank you for sharing, Pete!
Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment and question. I had never heard of pochoirs either until I started making these videos and the term kept cropping up in the context of early 20th century French illustration, and I was shocked at just how much was printed that way. Like many of what I think of as the more esoteric ways of making pictures I'm fairly ignorant about it, but there are several 'how to make a pochoir print' videos on youtube which give greater insight than I ever could. What baffles me is that they could have just created the images as ink and watercolour illustrations and printed them with offset litho. I presume it was way cheaper, but I don't really know.
Sir, you have become my champion! Thank you! This series is such an amazing blessing to my work!
Hello again and your favourable verdict on the channel and its content is very welcome. Thanks a lot.
And again you have surprised us with a fine selection of artists, with a wide variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Thank you, once more!
Hello again and thanks once more for your appreciation and support.
"What you're trying to achieve" is nothing short of a major contribution to illustrators, artists and historical relevance!
I learn and appreciate what I discover in your presentations. Tnx!
Hi Mike and I hope you are right. I know I've raised awareness about illustration and those who have created it to an extent, but I sometimes wonder why the videos haven't been a bit more popular - especially among the young. But then I found that to be the case when I taught at university too.
@@petebeard The youth today are a weird bunch. They want most everything spoon fed to them. Those 'with talent' don't seem to care about where anything originated. Just my opinion. Or the historical environment that either added or challenged their careers. Makes me feel even more like a dinosaur! My Best!
And Happy 4th!! I hope you enjoy your day off!!
Awesome! I just finished watching your video on N.C. Wyeth. Great timing.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation,
Wonderful as always. I've never heard of Adolf Hengeler. His work is my kind of focus. Thank you!
Hello and thanks for your favourable comment. I also really like Hengeler's work. Some of those manic crowd scenes wouldn't look out of place in a 60's copy of Mad.
@@petebeard Certainly. It would seem just as the general talent from the late 19th and early 20th century illustrated periodicals where nearing the end of their time here a new generation was just growing up to carry some of that magic here in the US. E.C. was there at the right time and place to scoop some of the best talent who had probably consumed those visual recordings as kids. Who will run with that torch today? I hope that made some sense. Thank you for taking this information of rendering in pen and ink and bringing it to a new generation with such skill.
Each time I have watched one video about illustrators from you, I'm happy. This is a never-ending amazement about talent.
Thanks !!!!
Hllo again and thanks for your continued support. I'm very glad you still enjoy the series.
Finding this series has been like finding a shining beacon of light! Congratulations and thank you for making such a body of beautiful and informative videos 😍
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation, and it really is a tonic when viewers such as yourself let me know that you enjoy the content. I must say I like the look of your cutout paper work too.
@@petebeard thank you so much and honestly, your channel is fabulous. In fact it is directly affecting my work. I have been developing some pochoir piece and after a few dead ends it is really working! Good paper is the key. There are illustrators I have loved since about 17 and when a few pop up on your videos, with extra info that I can learn, then it is brilliant! Well done for such a useful and informative body of work.
Your videos are absolutely among the best things ever! Thank You!
Hello and that's a really nice thing to say. Thanks a lot.
I just want to say thanks for sharing whatever fantastic archive you have access to and your vast appreciation for the subject matter
Hello and your kind remarks about the channel and my contribution to it are most welcome.
A VERY diverse bunch. I enjoy these very much and tend to hoard them for when I feel I need cheering up! Keep up the good work!
And again thanks a lot.
These are so good!
Thank you Mr. Beard.
Hello and I'm delighted you think so. Thanks for watching.
I enjoyed this video so much. Stunning Illustrations and great way of story telling.
Hello and many thanks, as previously. I'm glad you continue to enjoy the content.
That theme music always brightens my day. Thanks!
Hello again and thanks for your longstanding support.
13:49 thrilled to see this little gouache here. I have the original and have always been curious to know what it illustrated. Longtime follower thank you the library you have created, an incredible resource
Hello and thanks for the comment. Now there's an original I'd like to see.
after a half day of looking for it, realized I sold it a couple of years ago and had identified it as a cover for programs at the Theatre Du Nouvel Ambigu. Now it seems I only have an uninteresting carriage scene by him, but I have a very good steeplechase watercolor by his brother, Jacques, that you'd be welcome to use if you plan to cover him in future.
@@liveoak4124 Thanks for the additional information. I didnt even know he had a brother, and of course I'm always on the lookout for other candidates. However a quick look suggests there's probably not enough material to feature him in the series. I'll have a deeper dig and see what I can unearth. Thanks again.
Such a gift, this series.
Hi again and thanks as usual. Your longtime dedication to the cause is very rewarding.
@@petebeard truthfully, it is your dedication that I am grateful for.
Thanks Pete for more educational and entertaining insights into illustrators that I was unaware of. I particularly liked the works of Lucian Bernhard and Pierre Brissaud. Someone else has already made a comment here that your series enriches our lives and I second that.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. It's a real tonic to know the channel is valued by viewers.
Another wonderful video, Pete. I'm always struck by the sense of light and atmosphere some of these illustrators achieve with just more or less flat color. I was especially taken by the simple posters of Bernhard and the illustrations of Brissaud. It's always an enlightening education how these early illustrators battled-and succeeded- the simple technology of printing and its limitations at the turn of the century. As I've mentioned before (ad nauseam, I fear; my apologies!), it wasn't just the talent of drawing and painting that makes these artists so competent, but also the knowledge of the printing process and taking advantage of the limitations. Bravo! Thanks again, Pete. Hope your summer has kicked off with good things. Bloody hot and humid here in Provence, but with my sketch pad, paints, some shady terraces at my local café-and the occasional G &T-I'm surviving. Have a great week!
Hi again Doug and thanks for your comment. If nothing else, making these videos has really opened my eyes to the many processes that have been used in the creation of printed images. Pochoir in particular seems insanely laborious - but the results of Brissaud and his contemporaries are undeniably justification for its use. And summer here has currently fizzled out after a promising start. So don't rub it in about Provence. Mind you I hear Paris and other cities are finding it fairly warm right now...
@@petebeard HA! Don't know if you made the Paris quip as a joke, but yes, it is warm there, but politically; you've heard of the riots and car burnings there the last couple days, yes? And I have plans to be there for a few days soon. Ah, well, such is life. Stay safe and take care and thanks again for the wonderful histories.
@@wemblyfez Hi again and yes that's what I was making a poor taste joke about. Sooner you than me.
British understatement has always amused me as I'm so often prone to hyperbole. Specifically, when an illustrator has a career-making moment, you always say, "It did nothing to dimish his reputation." Meanwhile I'm hearing this... *"He hits a hard line drive into center field! It's going...it's going...it's GONE - a Grand Slam home run!!"* 😂🤣
Thanks for another laugh. As they say we are two countries divided by a common language.
Another homerun video...Pete,...thank you for bringing these to life the memories of long ago illustrators. I have finally caught up to the present video... I sometimes scroll through a second and third time to isolate a certain image - this had so many! Thank you!
Hello and thanks a lot for your dedication to the cause. It means a lot to me.
Your videos are the kind I wish I had been able to watch when I was studying commercial illustration, many years ago. It is never too late to learn more about illustration. Your videos take me back to school again. Many thanks.🙂
Hi again and thanks again for your comment. To an extent it's my attempt to make up for the shoddy art education that many recieved, including myself.
Especially like .Brissaud....I found Beltrame un believable..that he could do such work just by using his imagination .... thank you.....😊
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for the comment.
I just watch a very long and disturbing video about a death penalty case where the convicted killer (on death row) is probably innocent. I needed something that would lighten my mood. So I turned to you. Thank you, Pete, for another wonderful video on one of my great passions - illustration.
❤ Shirley
Hello and many thabks for your continued appreciation. if the channel can provide a little light relief from the unpleasantness that seems to pervade the world I'll take a certain pride in that.
Sad to know that war seems to have taken Adolf Hengeler's joy of drawing so he just decided to start painting more melancholic scenes. Speaking of joy, your videos area always a nice treat.
Hello, and thanks a lot for your comment. When I read about his bitterness about the war and how few of his students returned I was reminded of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Really liked Hengeler's style, humor, and knowing cartoons, esp for such a young person, but his painting of a loaded clothesline being admired by a bow-tied gardener was the winning image. I could look at that every day and wonder what the story was. Maybe painted just to capture the lovely morning light and color of the moment. Or the socks? It doesn't matter. Simply delightful.
Hello again and I really liked some of Hengeler's more manic crowd scenes, and yes that painting tickled me too. Not often you see art with a sense of humour.
@@petebeard Yes, that's the core of it, isn't it? Without the sox, it may be just a person admiring the sun through the white clothing, perfectly acceptable by Society. But add in a pair of dark sox over-lapping the admirably painted sun-drenched articles and you've got a query, a dilemma for the 'discerning' to try and describe away. He was a genius. I found the painting elsewhere and grabbed for my collection but also saw he had a penchant for lots of baby-type beings (not putto as such) doing all kinds of labor around humans. Not sure what that was about, didn't look into it. It can stay mysterious.
Some of Hengeler's work that you showed early on would have been right at home in the pages of *MAD,* alongside Jack Davis. Thanks, Pete!
Hello again, and yes, those manic group scenes were very much ahead of their time. I'm currently working on JD as a solo video.
Thanks for posting Pete. I stumbled across your channel a few months ago and absolutely love your work. Illustrations are my favourite form of art. Some illustrators I recognized others I haven’t. Thanks again.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I'm very glad you collided with the channel and I hope you'll stay with it as there's a ton more stuff in the pipeline.
Thank you for yet another highly enjoyable and informative video. Your unflagging high-level of quality productions sets the bar, Sir. Cheers.
Hello again, and your appreciation of the channel content is always a pleasureto read. Thanks.
Thanks again, Pete! - Loved Brissaud's grey tones for shade and shadow, that actually accentuate the colours...
Beltrame is one of the few Italian illustrators you've covered, part of the WWII Axis' countries, and having participated in the War efforts (graphically, I might add). That said, there may be so many more talents that existed in the Mediterranean regions too.
Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment. I'm not sure if I'm clear about what you are saying about the axis illustrators. I thought I'd covered them pretty thoroughly either as part of the unsung series or in the WW2 propaganda video, but maybe I've misunderstood your point.
@@petebeard Good God! - then, it's surely an oversight on my part. And admittedly, not having perused through all 96 episodes, I must mine them out!
Thank you!
Thank you Pete! All the artists mentioned are new to me, save of course for Lucian Bernhard whos works I studied both in typography course and in history of graphic design along with Hans Rudi Erdt and Ludwig Hohlwein. Your work is really awesome!
Hello again and many thanks for your continued appreciation of the channel content. And thanks too for jogging my memory - I haven't covered Erdt in the series - yet!
Lovely to hear your voice, Pete. It's always nice to see an upload from you!
Hello and many thanks for your comment. It's most welcome.
Marvellous, thanks, Pete. I was working and watching, so I'll give it another viewing. Pierre Brissaud caught my eye, though. Excellent stuff!
Hi again and I hope that another look reveals more of his talent - and the others too, of course. I really like Hengeler's chaotic scenes.
@@petebeard I agree. a smashing video, as usual.
You do more than just find something interesting. From beginning to end I find all of these fascinating. Thanks agin.
Hello and your supportive comment is very welcome - thanks a lot.
It strikes me that as formidable artistically as all these latest featured titans are in the series, equally worthy of mention is that they lived amazingly adaptive lives. As with other previous entries, you've shown us that a fair share of them moved often, sometimes from one continent to another, at a time when long distance travel was not as easily implemented a proposition as now. They were often in the midst of wars, either actively of as proxy representatives via their art, and frequently had varying degrees of success in both commercial illustration and fine art careers when the line between those two worlds was more indelible than perhaps now.
Achille Beltrame's dual role as inventive illustrator and disaster/conflict documentarian was especially impressive. You referenced Walter Molino as his gifted successor at the end of that segment--is he to be featured in the future, perhaps, or has he been showcased already and I missed him?
It goes without saying that you have served up another masterpiece Pete. I wholeheartedly echo the many of us here who express deep ongoing gratitude for your superb accomplishments, both in choice and presentation.
Hello again and many thanks for your comment and observations about the featured illustrators. Your appreciation and continued support are very welcome. Regarding Molino I'm sorry to say he was born just too late to qualify for the unsung heroes series (cut off DOB 1910). But he's too good to ignore and when/if I ever finish my history of Italian illustration series he'll certainly be among those covered.
@@petebeard Much appreciated! I indeed did forget the sensible timeframe for this series (which has allowed so much brilliance to truly shine), my oversight. Thank you for the note on possibly seeing Molino in your future Italian illustration series!
I was totally smitten by Pierre Brissaud. I'm a big Tintin fan, and I see a lot of the style that would have influenced Hergé in his work. As you said, there's narrative implication everywhere in the examples you selected.
Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment.Brissaud should be much better known I think.
Never has a chanel gained such a quick subscribe! Great job
Hello and welcome to the channel. I hope you stick around for more.
You hope I've found something to hold my interest. When you release one of your videos I stop whatever I'm doing, make myself a coffee and then sit watch and enjoy your video. So I'd say you've pretty much achieved what you set out to do. As always.
Hello again and its good to know I;m having success in my mission. Thanks.
I always learn so much from your videos! Thank you for all the hard work
Hello and you are more than welcome. Thanks for the comment.
In my computer work I've used my share of "Bernhard" typefaces, but this is the first I knew anything about their designer. A fine presentation: fascinating what changes the "Great War" made -- or did not make -- in the styles and subjects of these men.
Hello again and I've long admired the work of Bernhard and others from his time who made no distinction between the more formal demands of graphic design and the more playful aspects of illustration. In many ways the term 'commercial artist' was more inclusive and expressive. Milton Glaser springs to mind, too.
@@petebeard Looking forward to one on him, then! Or did i miss it already?
@@wynnschaible Hello and no you didn't miss it, as for now he's yet another name in an apparently endless list of illustrator/designers to be featured. I just hope I live long enough to cover at least most of them.
It's so fascinating to watch Your videos Pete! All the different art styles is impressive! Keep up the good work😊👍 Cheers from Denmark!
Hello and I'm very pleased you appreciate the channel - thanks a lot.
Smashing video as usual, thank you 👍
Hello and thanks a lot for your support.
Hey Mr. Beard, I have two things I’m interested in. The first being; why the horses? I have nothing against them! Just curious if you have a particular affinity or if you just began to notice a theme at one point so you ran with it.
Next, I recently noticed some incredible illustration techniques used for a still used for Southern Nights by Glen Campbell here on RUclips. I immediately wondered if you had come across it and if you had any information on it.
Thanks again for all your work!
I realize that that was not very clear. The song Southern Nights by Glen Campbell, if you search it on RUclips, there’s a version that has what is maybe an album cover containing some striking illustration. I know you’re a musician yourself and I wonder if you know anything about the artist.
Also, I don’t know if you’re aware but the auto generated (?) chapters in the timeline of this video tell me that the first artist here is Adolf hitler… but since Mr. Hingler died in ‘29 I assume that these are not the same person.
I just read the description and see that you know. 😂
OK then - second query first... Gary van der Steur created the image and it is the cover of the album by that name (I think it may be a re-packaged edition). And regarding the horses they are not in fact invariably horses and the riders aren't always human, but it did pan out that way. The original idea was an heroic image and I figured the hero on his trusty steed would do. Then it turned into a game /challenge for me to see how long I could keep it up.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ always interesting *Pete* & Thank You for your education in this subject
Hello again and as ever your appreciation and stars are most welcome.
While I had seen before some of those illustrations from Achille Beltrame, I did not know that they were actually all done by the same artist; somehow, I thought it was just the "default artstyle" of the pubblication La domenica del corriere.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. If you haven't already seen it you might enjoy Walter Molino's work, who took over when Beltrame retired.
Thanks Pete for another great episode!
Cheers!
Oh, wonderful! Just Wonderful!
Hi again and thanks as ever.
@@petebeard Thank you too!
Most enjoyable!! Thank you so much 😊
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation.
Always something of interest - Thanks
Hi and thanks a lot.
Thank you Mr Pete😊
And thanks to you for your continued support.
Brilliant! Thank you again
Hello again and thanks for the comment.
Apologies for the tardy reply, another great offering from Lancashire, s Art Bard...😊😊
Hello Eamonn, and your appreciation is always welcome - but it's not compulsory, however welcome. So please don't feel obliged to comment on every video.
Her Pete, do you know any black or African illustration/illustrator. I have been searching around the internet and have not found many artists/ painters
Hello, and that's quite a major question. So far in the series I've covered George Herriman, who was of mixed race, in 30, and Elmer Simms Campbell in 20. In the pipeline there are only another two candidates so far, namely Aaron Douglas and Pamela Colman Smith. Obviously in the period I cover there was only a sigificant black population inthe USA and at that time racism was the norm, so however lamentable it's hardly surprising. These days I think the situation is a lot more equitabe across Europe and the USA, although modern times aren't my territory. Jerry Pinckney was a major modern figure though and I'm sure there are more who fit the category. Africa, like China and a few other countries is a closed book it seems. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Thank you.
My pleasure.
Fascinating, as always!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Wow! Thanks again Pete. 😎🌻
Hello and your appreciation is always welcome.
My favorite one was the frenchman very elegant and classic, the second the German with the art deco I like it and the third one it's the Italian
Hello again and it's good to know you are still enjoying the content. Thanks a lot.
I feel like I’ve seen Bernhard’s work my whole life without ever knowing it…
Hello and you probably have. Those early posters crop up all over the place in books and online.
You say about Hengeler illustrated childrens books "unfortunately not in color" I found the comment sad, as personally I love B&W. Even have B&W dogs.
Hello and thanks for the comment. I obviously didn't make myself clear - I think true B&W is wonderful in the right hands. It was a reference to the fact that those frog pictures for kids' books were halftone grey washes, and consequently as drab as the English weather.
It's hilarious how in the chapter sections of the video Adolf Hengeler is instead Adolf Hitler... I had to check 3x to be sure
Hello and I was amused enough not to complain to the robots at youtube. I wonder if there are others...
I would like to warn you that for whatever reason, RUclips chapters labelled the section dedicated to Adolf Hengeler with the name of a different, lesser Austrian painter better known for... other work.
Hello and thanks a lot for that. I laughed out loud when I saw it and it just proves how moronic youtube and its minions are. I'd complain to them but it would probably be a waste of time and energy.
“…I hope you’ve found something of interest…”. Are you kidding?! Everything you post is of interest!!!
Hello and rhats a very nice thing to say. Very welcome.
I like that girl in the bathing suit
have you looked at roy krenkel?
Hello, and unfortunately he was born too late to qualify for inclusion. The last year of birth is 1910 so he missed the bus (1918). But I think I may have mentioned him in my origins of fantasy art video.
@@petebeard oh i'll take a look at that video! Roy has many great influences from the golden age. one of them being Norman Lindsay, I think you done a video on him
unsung heries, lol
Oops. Thanks for pointing it out - now amended.