@@liamoliver6886 Thanks for the comment. I used to be an illustrator and worked for about 40 years in that capacity. There is a video I posted when I first made stuff for youtube in 2016 -the year I retired. It's short and pretty low resolution but gives some idea of what passed for my career. Just put a search in for "Pete Beard Portfolio"
Very nice Pete. You mentioned several times throughout this presentation of the amount of time and research that you do in order to make each presentation. Such phrases as “this is what I could find”, and “I tried to find more.” Hats off to you for the time you, (and those who assist you), spend gathering many beautiful works of historical art. Frank
Thanks a lot for your continued appreciation. I do try to find as much as I can but between what;s been watermarked and what isn't good enough quality it can be a challenge. But it's well worth the effort and keeps me out of trouble.
Thank You, Mr.Beard I Often Don’t comment but I’ve been a longtime viewer and lover of your channel your videos have exposed me to so many amazing talents of the past and Walter Trier’s whimsical style especially resonates with me heavily the last part about finding his art a brief moment away from reality I can definitely agree with in fact all of the illustrators you show help bring me a moment of calm in a stressful life with there immense skill and talent wrapping me into there artwork again thank you!
Thanks a lot for your comment, and I really don't expect every viewer to always comment about the content. I'm just happy that you continue to watch and appreciate the outcomes.
Thank you for this. Some of his invariably kind, light work is kept here in Toronto and it has been shown along with other satirical art. “[The Art Gallery of Ontario] received a gift from the Trier-Fodor Foundation of over 1100 works by Trier and 345 folk toys. The gift was accompanied by an endowment to support the acquisition of humorous, satirical and illustrative art.”
Since I watch your videos regularly, permit me to offer deserved praise. Danke. Narrative voice good as well. The nexus of art and humor, cartooning and culture. New Yorker is a peak source, from John OBrien and Roz Chast to Bruce Eric Kaplan and the covers of Peter de Seve. Perhaps another series focusing on captions and dialogue in cartooning would fit a kindred spirit's Venn neighbor. A picture and text can multiply 'value'...worth a billion syllables. "Punch" gone now. Shame. Who did the messy-looking India-ink caricatures for a "The Lost World" edition I had 60 plus years ago ? I learned from looking about a true impressionist vision from them. Prof Challenger, Lord John Roxton...caricatures that seemed realer than life, in their own secret public realm. Very realmy. Wordsmith, without metal. Je vous remercie infiniment, ou presque.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation and thoughts about illustration in general. In case you haven't seen it allow me to plug my video new Yorker Covers 1925 - 1939.
You are so kind and so generous to respond wirh such detailed explanation. And. This gorgeous and competent compilation of tier is one of my favorites, as far as his Panoroma of approaches, but wirh no respect ti sll of your other Herculean productions. As always, great music,vand beautiful/comfortable fade aways and easing into new images. You're far better, for being as cunning in your demuring simplicity, than people will ever notice at first glance. Quite a magician are You. Thank you for being a day star in my Solar system. Respectfully Yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA Etats Unis
Hey Pete! Like the other viewer, I have been watching your videos for a few years now and have gotten much inspiration from them. I never knew there were so many illustrators. Thanks for bringing these people to our attention.
Wow ! Thank you again for this beautiful and so interesting film about the illustrator Walter Trier . His illustrations are enchanting, humorous and charming. These are the kind of children books that, as an adult I would like to read and as a grand-mother to tell my grand children. You did a wonderful work.
Thanks a lot for your continued appreciation of the channel content. I've loved Trier's illustrations since my own childhood and it's a genuine pleasure to know there are other people out there who feel the same.
That final illustration! Classic. Many years ago there was a bi-weekly part-publication entitled "History of the 20th Century" (back when such things were actually worth collecting) and one issue featured Trier's map of Europe as a double page spread. I have been enthralled by it ever since. But it was the only example of his work that I was aware of, so this essay is a much appreciated dive into his art. His line work is clean and simple but I do find his watercolours quite charming and vivid. I can see traces of possible influence on illustrators like Paul Cox and Tomi Ungerer, though whether they were is purely conjecture. Another fascinating look into an artist I knew too little about.
Thanks as usual fir your favourable response to this video. I remember that map from long ago but I never connected it with the Walter trier I had grown up liking as a kid in the 1950s. And who knows, when it comes to influence? I try to only make connections if the parties involved actually say something about it, but it is tempting to speculate.
Discovering each artist's art is one thing. But, to follow the eras and world conditions in which they grew, produced and contributed is so much more educational. Your research and depth of of such is always fascinating! Thank you, sir!
Thanks a lot. Whenever I can I like to add a bit of context, particulalry when the work shown reflects the social and political changes we have gone through in the last 100 years.
I grew up with the books by Erich Kästner (which is pronounced 'kaestner'), and those illustrations by Trier are basically burned into my brain. Thanks for the trip down memory lane., Pete. It's always a delight to watch your videos.
Siempre es un placer encontrar un nuevo video de Mr Beard. Me descubro como un crío que rebusca en una inmensa biblioteca llena de obras de arte, mientras un guía extremadamente amable me indica dónde mirar. Gracias
Stunning video again, Pete. You are one of the most hard working creators on TH-cam. I have previously seen Trier's brilliant jabs at the führer and his companions, but here you have shown us the great depth of his work.
I think it is remarkable that Walter Trier, like many of his contemporaries, was able to have such a prolific career that spanned the pre World War I and post World War II years. There is much we could learn from Trier and his fellow illustrators in terms of their work, and their commitment to their craft. Thank you for this engaging look at Trier.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and understanding of what I'm trying to do with the channel, by placing these almost forgotten figures into some sort of historical context.
What a delightful surprise to find that one knows an artist very well, the images only though, not the name. Erich Kästner's books were part and parcel of children's reading material in my childhood. I recently bought Emil And The Detectives at a jumble sale. But not only those images were familiar. There were others in the video that I recognised, which brought back happy memories. As always, it was beautifully presented, interestingly told and as a bonus took me back to a time when life seemed less complicated. Thank you
Thanks a lot for your continued appreciation. I may have already mentioned I wasn't much of a reader in childhood (apart from comics) but I do remember a couple of books in my primary school library illustrated by Trier and I've admired his work ever since.
@@petebeard Fair point. His crowd scenes and scenic pictures in particular stand out for me. They have an inexplainable magnetism. Sometimes they anticipate Sempé, sometimes Quentin Blake...anyway, thank you for answering my comment!
Another wonderful lesson Mr. Beard. Mr. Trier had a wonderful way of visualizing the world and it's inhabitants. His Lilliput run is very impressive. Thank you.
Thanks Pete, another great video of an artist I had not heard of. There are some little gems in Trier's work, though I can't say I loved them all - certainly an individual though, which is always good to see.
Thank you for another excellent video, Peter. It's a pity you could not find more of his work but I am sure it was not for the lack of trying. When my children were young they had several books of the crazy people type shown here. It seems a good idea is a good idea. The illustration of the wizard at 14:47 with the stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling was a bit of a surprise. In his Disc World book the late Terry Pratchett tells how every wizard had a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling and though nobody knew why it was always taken as a sure sign that he was a real wizard.
Thank you again, Pete Beard! This is brilliant. Trier's illustrations had a deep impression on me (German, born in 1968). Greetings from Berlin, Gerd (Little remark: As far as I know Walter Trier's (1890-1951) pictures series "The Jolly Steamship" from the 1940s was only found in 2005 surprisingly in Erich Kästner's estate. With the verses by Harry Rowohlt (1945-2015), it has then been turned into a complete picture book for the first time)
Many thanks for your comment and appreciation. And now it makes sense that the only publication year I could find for that book was improbably recent. Thanks for the clarification.
Thanks.. i was about to watch the video tomorrow and... too late. Great arts, great artist, and a high quality video/presentation, what can be better ?!
16:35 ... indeed!! Had he moved to New York I could easily see him doing covers for The New Yorker! Slightly off topic: Pete, you must feature Adolf Born (if you haven't already)!!! Another gifted Czech artist I just discovered him recently and he instantly became one of my favorite illustrators!! As far as I can see there is only one video featuring him on TH-cam and that is on Pizen TV channel!
Thanks as usual for your appreciation. And funnily enough another viewer beat you to it a couple of weeks back by suggesting I investigate Mr. Born. And thanks to him - and now your good self - he is very much on the list. But as usual my caveat is - don't hold your breath as the list of works in progress is a long one. Busy, busy, busy....
Emil and the Detectives! I had that book when I was a kid! The illustrations always stayed with me, although I recall little of the story but a joke sequence that didn't translate well into English and having it explained to me by my older brother, who was taking German at the time. "What was your surname? Fish leg? Chair leg? " "Tishbein." translates to a table leg in English, but the joke was lost.
A very good video that is obviously well researched. It's such a shame that an artist so undeniably talented and prolific would have such a terrible mark on their legacy. It goes to show how pervasive hate was in Europe (and other Western nations of course.) I find it very interesting that someone who very clearly saw the bigotry facing him wouldn't have seen it in himself. It shows an example of a problem that many people before, during, and after his time have where they think that these horrible things should happen...just not to them. All that said I've very fond of his work and was pleased to find that I was aware of it already.
Thanks a lot fir your appreciation, comment and insight. And your point is well made, but I feel I should say in Trier's defence that making insensitive but essentiallywell meaning cartoons of black people doesn't really stack up against loading people onto trains to face death in a concentration camp, so "hate" in that context is a bit of a strong condemnation.
@@petebeard With all due respect there doesn't need to be a comparison. What happened during the nazi regime was horrific, and the same can be said of how Africans and black people in general have been treated for hundreds of years (we can use your own country as an example.) As someone who either professionally or as a hobby is a historian I would think you'd be aware of how "loading people onto trains" isn't how things started, but it was cartoons such as the ones Trier made of black people that contributed to a calculated dehumanization of Jews and others. No one is immune from the time and culture they grew up in. We can say that people back then held hateful beliefs without diminishing their accomplishments. So too will eventually be said of us.
Ausgezeichnet! I must admit I don't think I ever saw his work before, even in his English language publications. The US and Canada were certainly fortunate receiving all the highly talented refugees from Europe during the WWII era.
Hi, and I'm glad to have introduced you to his work. I'm starting to think the later years produced many who in their own way gave the more obvious golden age illustrators a run for their money.
@@petebeard Well, I agree. I think it is not only the art they produced, but how it was presented. You have made several videos of poster artists, who were illustrators, but posters were always expensive and had limited runs, at least before Brown & Bigelow degraded the medium. But book illustrators, after the limited editions, had trade editions, which allowed collectors of even modest means to own Dulac's ,Rackham's, Pogany's Wyeth's, etc. Which is why, as I mentioned, the publishers contributed to the Golden Age as importantly as the artists/illustrators themselves. Had they not carried forward the William Morris craft ideas into publishing, we never would have had a Golden Age.
Thanks - and apparently there were two filmed versions. The one with Hayley Mills and a later one. Both were based - if only pretty loosely as is the way with hollywood - on Kästner's story.
"the increasingly oppressive nature of the real world". Hey Pete, to quote a popular saying from a couple decades ago "Don't let the bullsh*t get you down." Continue to find and share the joys of living these illustrations illuminate.
Many thanks for your appreciation and comment. I must admit I find the worlds depicted by many of my subjects in these videos a considerably more attractive and benevolent proposition than the one we seem intent on ruining. But then I'm a pessimist by nature...
Thank you, another gem! I appreciate your reminder that the art needs to be viewed thru the lenses of the time it was made. Not always politically correct, but a product of the age. Have you considered Beth & Joe Krush? I fondly remember their work from the 50's & 60's. Illustrated some of Elizabeth Enright's books.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation and observation. And even more thanks for Beth and Joe Krush. I hadnt considered them for the simple reason that I had never heard of them. They look like ideal subject matter and are now on the list. But I must stress that's a very long list and I couldn't even estimate how soon they might appear. Thanks again for the suggestion.
Love your videos so much! Is there a chance you could make a video about Dean Cornwell or Maed Schauffer? I love their art, but they arent very well known.
Thanks a lot for your continued appreciation. And Dean Cornwell is one of the illustrators appearing in unsung heroes 19 and Mead Schaeffer is featured in unsung 17. Like others the amount of information and pictorial material in both cases wasn't enough to justify solo features. But the internet seems to keep getting deeper and I may try to return to both in greater depth. If you want to browse that series there's a complete list at the end of unsung 100.
Thanks a lot for your comment and observation. In my case reality is almost invariably a disappointment. I prefer what the world looks like in my head. Maybe that's why I was an illustrator for so many years...
@@petebeard the reality so-called and the world in your head are a state of consciousness, (self awareness.) seek to change that awareness and and Truth begins to appear. But we first may have to throw out a lot of ingrained ruts. However Truth is at work on us like it or not and that is actually what all the turmoil is all about within us and without us. The art of life is the most important art of all. Yet it is smothered with all sorts of beliefs. I had better stop because Utube is awash with guru teachers and they do not have the whole truth. But I love that saying “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.
The cartoonish and colourful drawings remind me of something I read has a child, maybe it was something illustrated by him, since I grew up speaking Portuguese and German.
Man! You're as brilliant a narrator as Charles Dickens: Your vocabulary and verbal vignettes are just amazing with richness and variety of meandering scope. Tell me if you can: your French use and speech -- I fully get. But? How did you learn the German language with such expertise? From childhood? I'm just curious how the German tongue BECAME Yours. Best regards Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA Etats Unis
Hi again, and even I think the Dickens comparison might be just a little over-generous. But it's appreciated nevertheless. I studied French at school so I'm quite familiar with their generous use of vowels. German (and every other language with the slight exception of Spanish, which I've picked up by going there a lot) is another matter altogether. The answer is simple - I rely on Google translate and pronunciation. It's not foolproof but it's a lot better than mit would be if I was left to my own linguistic prowess.
Very interesting, great artist, thanks! In a similar time frame, the entertainer Eddie Cantor often performed in bl@ck face. When asked later on, after it was no longer socially accepted why he did that, he said something along the line of, "It made the people laugh."
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. It's always an awkward momnet when I include racially uncomfortable moments, but luckily most of my viewers seem to not be blue haired social justice warriors and be grown up about it.
Can you bring a video about fantastic art? I am really looking for this kind of artistic expression but I can’t find easily…for exemplo, where fantastic art born, what’s makes an art being considered fantastic art, how can we bring these in the contemporary art and so on
Hello, and if you mean fantasy art (not sure what fantastic art might be - I think the name has got lost in translation) then I can point you at my video "The Origins of Fantasy Art" which is on the channel.I hope it's what you were looking for.
I was not aware, but I have "The conference of the animals" which is a wonderful book even for adults. But to include a human black family in a book on animals... oh dear. I wonder whether it was considered progressive at the time, give the Christian exceptionalism view. BTW you butchered "Kästner" quite a bit. The ä is the same as in "fliegende Blätter" which you pronounced very nicely. Also, the "t" is prononced stronly.
Thanks for the comment, appreciation and lesson in pronunciation. But in my defence any language that requires an umlaut isn't doing its job properly, in my book
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Thank you, Mr. Beard. You have turned me on to more illustrators that I never would have known about than I can count. Your work is a blessing.
That's a very nice thing to say and your comment is very much appreciated. Thanks a lot.
@@petebeard lovely stuff Pete. Another home run! Do you do any illustrations yourself? Would love to see some if you had a website?
@@liamoliver6886 Thanks for the comment. I used to be an illustrator and worked for about 40 years in that capacity. There is a video I posted when I first made stuff for youtube in 2016 -the year I retired. It's short and pretty low resolution but gives some idea of what passed for my career. Just put a search in for "Pete Beard Portfolio"
Your work deserves a tv series Pete. One of the best channels l have seen on You Tube
Thanks a lot. And thats a very nice sentiment but it's much more likely some TV cchannel will hijack the concept and get a celebrity to host it.
What a beautiful artist. I grew up with books written by Emil Kaestner and remember the illustrations. I always enjoyed them. Great video.
Thanks fir the comment and I'm glad you appreiate Trier's formidable talent.
Very nice Pete. You mentioned several times throughout this presentation of the amount of time and research that you do in order to make each presentation. Such phrases as “this is what I could find”, and “I tried to find more.” Hats off to you for the time you, (and those who assist you), spend gathering many beautiful works of historical art. Frank
You are so right! Time and time again I've tried coming up with images by the same artists Pete presents and can't come up with half!!
Thanks a lot for your continued appreciation. I do try to find as much as I can but between what;s been watermarked and what isn't good enough quality it can be a challenge. But it's well worth the effort and keeps me out of trouble.
Thank You, Mr.Beard I Often Don’t comment but I’ve been a longtime viewer and lover of your channel your videos have exposed me to so many amazing talents of the past and Walter Trier’s whimsical style especially resonates with me heavily the last part about finding his art a brief moment away from reality I can definitely agree with in fact all of the illustrators you show help bring me a moment of calm in a stressful life with there immense skill and talent wrapping me into there artwork again thank you!
Thanks a lot for your comment, and I really don't expect every viewer to always comment about the content. I'm just happy that you continue to watch and appreciate the outcomes.
How superb was that final illustration! A beautiful loving and respectful tribute Pete, as always!
Yes, I thought it was a good one to end with too. Thanks a lot for the appreciation.
Lovely stuff and a great sign off as usual!!
Thanks a lot again for your appreciation. Always welcome.
That last statement… in addition to the final image, just perfect
Hello and I'm very pleased you think so. I thought it made a good closing picture too.
Thank you for this. Some of his invariably kind, light work is kept here in Toronto and it has been shown along with other satirical art. “[The Art Gallery of Ontario] received a gift from the Trier-Fodor Foundation of over 1100 works by Trier and 345 folk toys. The gift was accompanied by an endowment to support the acquisition of humorous, satirical and illustrative art.”
Thanks fir your appreciation, and I'm envious - I would love to see some originals of his work
Since I watch your videos regularly, permit me to offer deserved praise. Danke. Narrative voice good as well. The nexus of art and humor, cartooning and culture. New Yorker is a peak source, from John OBrien and Roz Chast to Bruce Eric Kaplan and the covers of Peter de Seve. Perhaps another series focusing on captions and dialogue in cartooning would fit a kindred spirit's Venn neighbor. A picture and text can multiply 'value'...worth a billion syllables. "Punch" gone now. Shame. Who did the messy-looking India-ink caricatures for a "The Lost World" edition I had 60 plus years ago ? I learned from looking about a true impressionist vision from them. Prof Challenger, Lord John Roxton...caricatures that seemed realer than life, in their own secret public realm. Very realmy. Wordsmith, without metal. Je vous remercie infiniment, ou presque.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation and thoughts about illustration in general. In case you haven't seen it allow me to plug my video new Yorker Covers 1925 - 1939.
Amazing work and great presentation once again. Yours is a public service, no doubt.
Many thanks from your humble public servant...
What a wonderful artist, totally unknown to me until now. His style is so charming and lighthearted. Thanks again for another great introduction.
Thanks - I'm glad you enjoyed his work as he's a particular favourite of mine. I've admired his book illustrations since I was a kid so very long ago.
This research on our cultural legacy is much needed in our dire and ignorant modern world.
Thanks a lot - and funnily enough that's what I think too.
What a pure delight, and I especially liked your opening image and closing one.
Thanks as usual, and I try to use particular good ones when I can.
Awww Peter, another thoughtfully realized depiction of an artist’s life well lived. Thank you. 🙏🏻
Thanks again for another favourable review. It's good to know the work is appreciated.
You are so kind and so generous to respond wirh such detailed explanation. And. This gorgeous and competent compilation of tier is one of my favorites, as far as his Panoroma of approaches, but wirh no respect ti sll of your other Herculean productions. As always, great music,vand beautiful/comfortable fade aways and easing into new images. You're far better, for being as cunning in your demuring simplicity, than people will ever notice at first glance. Quite a magician are You. Thank you for being a day star in my Solar system. Respectfully Yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA Etats Unis
What can I say in the face of such flattery, apart from that well known Americanism "Aw...Shucks"?
Utterly charming artist! Thank you for this tribute to a very colourful artist; really enjoyed this!
Thanks and I'm glad you share my opinion of his lovely images.
I find your videos a blissfully significant antidote to the increasingly oppressive nature of living in the real world.
Thanks a lot and that's a very nice thing to say.
Hey Pete! Like the other viewer, I have been watching your videos for a few years now and have gotten much inspiration from them. I never knew there were so many illustrators. Thanks for bringing these people to our attention.
Thanks a lot for the appreciation. And there are still many more to come - so much so I'm intimidated by the sheer volume.
Excellent....as always....hope all is well up in deepest Lancashire....cheers Pete...E....😊😊
Hello again and congratulations of being the first to comment on this one. Your continuing commitment to the channel is always a welcome tonic.
@@petebeard.....😊....
Another outstanding illustrator! I could pause & look at most the images you include, but I'd be here all day, if I did 😍
Thanks a lot, and feel free to take your time. The pause button is always on hand.
Wow ! Thank you again for this beautiful and so interesting film about the illustrator Walter Trier . His illustrations are enchanting, humorous and charming. These are the kind of children books that, as an adult I would like to read and as a grand-mother to tell my grand children. You did a wonderful work.
Thanks a lot for your continued appreciation of the channel content. I've loved Trier's illustrations since my own childhood and it's a genuine pleasure to know there are other people out there who feel the same.
This is wonderful! I love his work! And it is still amusing after all this time!
Thanks and I'm glad you are a kindred spirit with regard to Trier's illustrations.
That final illustration! Classic.
Many years ago there was a bi-weekly part-publication entitled "History of the 20th Century" (back when such things were actually worth collecting) and one issue featured Trier's map of Europe as a double page spread. I have been enthralled by it ever since. But it was the only example of his work that I was aware of, so this essay is a much appreciated dive into his art.
His line work is clean and simple but I do find his watercolours quite charming and vivid.
I can see traces of possible influence on illustrators like Paul Cox and Tomi Ungerer, though whether they were is purely conjecture.
Another fascinating look into an artist I knew too little about.
Thanks as usual fir your favourable response to this video. I remember that map from long ago but I never connected it with the Walter trier I had grown up liking as a kid in the 1950s. And who knows, when it comes to influence? I try to only make connections if the parties involved actually say something about it, but it is tempting to speculate.
Discovering each artist's art is one thing. But, to follow the eras and world conditions in which they grew, produced and contributed is so much more educational. Your research and depth of of such is always fascinating! Thank you, sir!
Thanks a lot. Whenever I can I like to add a bit of context, particulalry when the work shown reflects the social and political changes we have gone through in the last 100 years.
I grew up with the books by Erich Kästner (which is pronounced 'kaestner'), and those illustrations by Trier are basically burned into my brain. Thanks for the trip down memory lane., Pete. It's always a delight to watch your videos.
Thanks for the comment and appreciation. And I can never get that damned umlaut right - it seems to me its never the same pronunciation twice...
@@petebeard You're welcome. As for that bothersome Ä umlaut, it just looks scary, but it's pronounced exactly like the 'A' in 'lake.
Siempre es un placer encontrar un nuevo video de Mr Beard. Me descubro como un crío que rebusca en una inmensa biblioteca llena de obras de arte, mientras un guía extremadamente amable me indica dónde mirar. Gracias
Muchas gracias por su aprecio por mi trabajo en el canal. Es bueno saber que se está viendo en tantos otros países
Stunning video again, Pete. You are one of the most hard working creators on TH-cam. I have previously seen Trier's brilliant jabs at the führer and his companions, but here you have shown us the great depth of his work.
Thanks a lot fir your appreciation of this video and the depth and range of Trier's contribution.
I think it is remarkable that Walter Trier, like many of his contemporaries, was able to have such a prolific career that spanned the pre World War I and post World War II years. There is much we could learn from Trier and his fellow illustrators in terms of their work, and their commitment to their craft. Thank you for this engaging look at Trier.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and understanding of what I'm trying to do with the channel, by placing these almost forgotten figures into some sort of historical context.
What a delightful surprise to find that one knows an artist very well, the images only though, not the name. Erich Kästner's books were part and parcel of children's reading material in my childhood. I recently bought Emil And The Detectives at a jumble sale.
But not only those images were familiar. There were others in the video that I recognised, which brought back happy memories.
As always, it was beautifully presented, interestingly told and as a bonus took me back to a time when life seemed less complicated. Thank you
Thanks a lot for your continued appreciation. I may have already mentioned I wasn't much of a reader in childhood (apart from comics) but I do remember a couple of books in my primary school library illustrated by Trier and I've admired his work ever since.
I find these videos such a nice way to start the day. Thank you for making them!
Thanks a lot for your favourable comment.
Some of his work has a timelessness to it that amazes me.
Thanks for the comment, and I believe that to be true of many I feature on the channel.
@@petebeard Fair point. His crowd scenes and scenic pictures in particular stand out for me. They have an inexplainable magnetism. Sometimes they anticipate Sempé, sometimes Quentin Blake...anyway, thank you for answering my comment!
Another wonderful lesson Mr. Beard. Mr. Trier had a wonderful way of visualizing the world and it's inhabitants. His Lilliput run is very impressive. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation of this video and Trier's marvellous work. A personal favourite of mine.
This is the first time you show up in my feed. It seems like a wonderful channel. Instant subscribe.
Hello and welcome. Thanks a lot for the subscription and I hope you continue to watch the content.
What an amazing artist! Thanks Pete, another spectacular video that could only be made by you
Many thanks for your appreciation, and I'm glad you enjoyed my presentation of his work.
Thanks Pete, another great video of an artist I had not heard of. There are some little gems in Trier's work, though I can't say I loved them all - certainly an individual though, which is always good to see.
Thanks as ever, and it isn't ever expected that you- or any other viewer - would necessaily like every image in any video. I certainly don't.
@@petebeard on the other hand, there are many artists featured that I do love all of the images. Such is life and the vagaries of taste.
Thank you for another excellent video, Peter. It's a pity you could not find more of his work but I am sure it was not for the lack of trying.
When my children were young they had several books of the crazy people type shown here. It seems a good idea is a good idea. The illustration of the wizard at 14:47 with the stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling was a bit of a surprise. In his Disc World book the late Terry Pratchett tells how every wizard had a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling and though nobody knew why it was always taken as a sure sign that he was a real wizard.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation. And reminding me about Pratchett's wizards and the crocodile. I hadn't made the connection.
Oh, how I've been waiting for this! Thank you!
Thanks a lot and I'm pleased you were evidently not disappointed.
Thank you again, Pete Beard! This is brilliant. Trier's illustrations had a deep impression on me (German, born in 1968). Greetings from Berlin, Gerd
(Little remark: As far as I know Walter Trier's (1890-1951) pictures series "The Jolly Steamship" from the 1940s was only found in 2005 surprisingly in Erich Kästner's estate. With the verses by Harry Rowohlt (1945-2015), it has then been turned into a complete picture book for the first time)
Many thanks for your comment and appreciation. And now it makes sense that the only publication year I could find for that book was improbably recent. Thanks for the clarification.
I was not aware of Trier's work, but I enjoyed the playful nature of it. He had a great imagination for humor, certainly!
Thanks as always for your appreciation. Trier is an all time favourite of mine, and has been since I first saw his work in the 50s when I was a kid.
@@petebeard I'm certain to seek out his illustrated childrens books now. Your video has made me a fan!
Another unknown (to me) gem. But Emil and the Detectives was still around when my sons (now grown men with families of their own) were little!
Thanks, and I'm glad to have made the introduction. He's well worth getting to know.
wow ! a new favorite artist, thanks for sharing, always inspires me to keep making art.
I'm very glad you consider him a new favourite. I've loved his work for around 60 years since I was a little tearaway.
16:50 The unbearable tension of the accomodating city folks for man's best friend!😂
Thanks again Pete!
Many thanks for your appreciation - it's most welcome.
this was indeed a wonderful salve for the harsh realities of the real world, thank you!
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. Glad you enjoyed it.
Another Great Video as always…. thank you “PETE BEARD”🎊🎉
Thanks again for another favourable response to a video. Always a pleasure.
Thanks.. i was about to watch the video tomorrow and... too late.
Great arts, great artist, and a high quality video/presentation, what can be better ?!
Thanks a lot as usual - it's rather nice that you had to watch immediately and couldn't delay your gratification.
16:35 ... indeed!! Had he moved to New York I could easily see him doing covers for The New Yorker!
Slightly off topic: Pete, you must feature Adolf Born (if you haven't already)!!! Another gifted Czech artist I just discovered him recently and he instantly became one of my favorite illustrators!! As far as I can see there is only one video featuring him on TH-cam and that is on Pizen TV channel!
Thanks as usual for your appreciation. And funnily enough another viewer beat you to it a couple of weeks back by suggesting I investigate Mr. Born. And thanks to him - and now your good self - he is very much on the list. But as usual my caveat is - don't hold your breath as the list of works in progress is a long one. Busy, busy, busy....
Emil and the Detectives! I had that book when I was a kid! The illustrations always stayed with me, although I recall little of the story but a joke sequence that didn't translate well into English and having it explained to me by my older brother, who was taking German at the time. "What was your surname? Fish leg? Chair leg? " "Tishbein." translates to a table leg in English, but the joke was lost.
Thanks a lot for your comment, and even with the explanation that has to qualify as the worst attempt at humour I can think of.
Beautiful.
Thanks a lot.
A very good video that is obviously well researched. It's such a shame that an artist so undeniably talented and prolific would have such a terrible mark on their legacy. It goes to show how pervasive hate was in Europe (and other Western nations of course.) I find it very interesting that someone who very clearly saw the bigotry facing him wouldn't have seen it in himself. It shows an example of a problem that many people before, during, and after his time have where they think that these horrible things should happen...just not to them.
All that said I've very fond of his work and was pleased to find that I was aware of it already.
Thanks a lot fir your appreciation, comment and insight. And your point is well made, but I feel I should say in Trier's defence that making insensitive but essentiallywell meaning cartoons of black people doesn't really stack up against loading people onto trains to face death in a concentration camp, so "hate" in that context is a bit of a strong condemnation.
@@petebeard With all due respect there doesn't need to be a comparison. What happened during the nazi regime was horrific, and the same can be said of how Africans and black people in general have been treated for hundreds of years (we can use your own country as an example.)
As someone who either professionally or as a hobby is a historian I would think you'd be aware of how "loading people onto trains" isn't how things started, but it was cartoons such as the ones Trier made of black people that contributed to a calculated dehumanization of Jews and others.
No one is immune from the time and culture they grew up in. We can say that people back then held hateful beliefs without diminishing their accomplishments. So too will eventually be said of us.
@@weholdpartiesvery well said. Thank you, because no one else made comment to this, nor were brave enough to… but it can’t be ignored. 😊
Ausgezeichnet! I must admit I don't think I ever saw his work before, even in his English language publications. The US and Canada were certainly fortunate receiving all the highly talented refugees from Europe during the WWII era.
Hi, and I'm glad to have introduced you to his work. I'm starting to think the later years produced many who in their own way gave the more obvious golden age illustrators a run for their money.
@@petebeard Well, I agree. I think it is not only the art they produced, but how it was presented. You have made several videos of poster artists, who were illustrators, but posters were always expensive and had limited runs, at least before Brown & Bigelow degraded the medium. But book illustrators, after the limited editions, had trade editions, which allowed collectors of even modest means to own Dulac's ,Rackham's, Pogany's Wyeth's, etc. Which is why, as I mentioned, the publishers contributed to the Golden Age as importantly as the artists/illustrators themselves. Had they not carried forward the William Morris craft ideas into publishing, we never would have had a Golden Age.
A prolific career and a beautiful video. I wonder, did he create the story of the parent trap which became the movie?
Thanks - and apparently there were two filmed versions. The one with Hayley Mills and a later one. Both were based - if only pretty loosely as is the way with hollywood - on Kästner's story.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
art is the peak of human achievement.
No argument from me, although I'm not convinced by some of the recent and contemporary exponents in the world of fine art. Banksy? I don't think so...
"the increasingly oppressive nature of the real world". Hey Pete, to quote a popular saying from a couple decades ago "Don't let the bullsh*t get you down." Continue to find and share the joys of living these illustrations illuminate.
Many thanks for your appreciation and comment. I must admit I find the worlds depicted by many of my subjects in these videos a considerably more attractive and benevolent proposition than the one we seem intent on ruining. But then I'm a pessimist by nature...
Thank you, another gem! I appreciate your reminder that the art needs to be viewed thru the lenses of the time it was made. Not always politically correct, but a product of the age.
Have you considered Beth & Joe Krush? I fondly remember their work from the 50's & 60's. Illustrated some of Elizabeth Enright's books.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation and observation. And even more thanks for Beth and Joe Krush. I hadnt considered them for the simple reason that I had never heard of them. They look like ideal subject matter and are now on the list. But I must stress that's a very long list and I couldn't even estimate how soon they might appear. Thanks again for the suggestion.
Love your videos so much! Is there a chance you could make a video about Dean Cornwell or Maed Schauffer? I love their art, but they arent very well known.
Thanks a lot for your continued appreciation. And Dean Cornwell is one of the illustrators appearing in unsung heroes 19 and Mead Schaeffer is featured in unsung 17. Like others the amount of information and pictorial material in both cases wasn't enough to justify solo features. But the internet seems to keep getting deeper and I may try to return to both in greater depth. If you want to browse that series there's a complete list at the end of unsung 100.
@@petebeard thanks a lot ♡
fabulous!
Glad you liked it.
Liked that one Pete, thank you. What is Real? is the same as asking what is Truth? Answer the later then one finds the real.
Thanks a lot for your comment and observation. In my case reality is almost invariably a disappointment. I prefer what the world looks like in my head. Maybe that's why I was an illustrator for so many years...
@@petebeard the reality so-called and the world in your head are a state of consciousness, (self awareness.) seek to change that awareness and and Truth begins to appear. But we first may have to throw out a lot of ingrained ruts. However Truth is at work on us like it or not and that is actually what all the turmoil is all about within us and without us. The art of life is the most important art of all. Yet it is smothered with all sorts of beliefs. I had better stop because Utube is awash with guru teachers and they do not have the whole truth. But I love that saying “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.
The cartoonish and colourful drawings remind me of something I read has a child, maybe it was something illustrated by him, since I grew up speaking Portuguese and German.
Thanks for the comment. I was a kid in the 1950s when I saw his book illustrations and I still love them now.
@@petebeard A little younger here, I was a kid in the 80s, but, I have always liked to read and draw, and even did it, draw, for some time.
Thank you! Long live frivolity!
...and so say all of us. Thanks for the comment.
Man! You're as brilliant a narrator as Charles Dickens: Your vocabulary and verbal vignettes are just amazing with richness and variety of meandering scope. Tell me if you can: your French use and speech -- I fully get. But? How did you learn the German language with such expertise? From childhood? I'm just curious how the German tongue BECAME Yours. Best regards Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA Etats Unis
Hi again, and even I think the Dickens comparison might be just a little over-generous. But it's appreciated nevertheless. I studied French at school so I'm quite familiar with their generous use of vowels. German (and every other language with the slight exception of Spanish, which I've picked up by going there a lot) is another matter altogether. The answer is simple - I rely on Google translate and pronunciation. It's not foolproof but it's a lot better than mit would be if I was left to my own linguistic prowess.
Very interesting, great artist, thanks! In a similar time frame, the entertainer Eddie Cantor often performed in bl@ck face. When asked later on, after it was no longer socially accepted why he did that, he said something along the line of, "It made the people laugh."
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. It's always an awkward momnet when I include racially uncomfortable moments, but luckily most of my viewers seem to not be blue haired social justice warriors and be grown up about it.
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Thanks a lot, and that's a perfect way to describe his work.
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Stars always welcome - thanks.
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Your entire catalog of videos can air just as they are on any television network. You know where to find Pete, so what are you waiting for?
I don't suppose you'd be interested in acting as my agent/manager?
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Thanks a lot.
Pete I love you
Music to my ears - thanks a lot. I like your animations too.
@@petebeard Thanks so much!
Can you bring a video about fantastic art? I am really looking for this kind of artistic expression but I can’t find easily…for exemplo, where fantastic art born, what’s makes an art being considered fantastic art, how can we bring these in the contemporary art and so on
Hello, and if you mean fantasy art (not sure what fantastic art might be - I think the name has got lost in translation) then I can point you at my video "The Origins of Fantasy Art" which is on the channel.I hope it's what you were looking for.
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These look very familiar. Have any of his books been published in English?
Yes,many of them. A quick google will reveal which ones.
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Thanks.
“Life under the Nazi regime could only get worse”. Ah, the well known British understatement 😅
I thought I'd replied but youtube disgrees. So in case they are right let me say again I try to keep a restrained tone in my narration. Thanks a lot.
I was not aware, but I have "The conference of the animals" which is a wonderful book even for adults. But to include a human black family in a book on animals... oh dear. I wonder whether it was considered progressive at the time, give the Christian exceptionalism view. BTW you butchered "Kästner" quite a bit. The ä is the same as in "fliegende Blätter" which you pronounced very nicely. Also, the "t" is prononced stronly.
Thanks for the comment, appreciation and lesson in pronunciation. But in my defence any language that requires an umlaut isn't doing its job properly, in my book
@@petebeard ;) I have nothing to defend German, alas, it is what it is.
I loved this! And it helped me realize what I needed for a painting! Thanks!♥️✌️🗳️🟦
Thanks for the aporeciation and if something in the video got you inspired so much the better.