An artist needs a niche. You can’t get much more niche than illustrations of 19th century monks getting drunk. And so, let us celebrate today the singular art of Eduard von Grutzner (1846-1925). His art is featured this week at the Hollywood Animation Archive blog. His work reminds me of Hogarth, only a century later and less grounded in moral lambast.
One of Grutzner’s more famous works was a painting of Falstaff, the original Shakespearian party animal. Falstaff, by the way, is a character in Merry Wives of Windsor.
