Germany 10 Euro Silver Coin 2007 Wilhelm Busch
Commemorative issue: 175th birthday of Wilhelm Busch
Wilhelm Busch was a 19th century German painter and poet, who became famous for his (black and white) picture stories, done as wood engraving or zincography. with rhymed texts (mostly four-trochees). He's still widely known today, especially for his children's stories, like Max and Moritz, the success of which has made him one of the most-quoted poets in the German language right next to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Schiller.Obverse: Stylized gothic eagle - the symbol of Germany and the 12 stars of the European Union. Inscription «BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND» ( «Federal Republic of Germany"), year of issue, as well as the mint mark.
Lettering: BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND D 2007 10 EURO.
Engraver: Othmar Kukula.
Reverse: Self-portrait of Wilhelm Busch, 1894, surrounded by his heroes: "Max and Moritz" at right and "Pious Helene" at left. Above the portrait «WILHELM BUSCH», at the bottom - "1832 - 1908".
Lettering: WILHELM BUSCH 1832-1908.
Engraver: Othmar Kukula.
Edge: Smooth with inscription.
Lettering: WER RUDERT, SIEHT DEN GRUND.
Face value: 10 Euro.
Metal: Silver (.925).
Weight: 18 g.
Diameter: 32.50 mm.
Shape: Round.
Mint mark: D - Munich.
Wilhelm Busch
Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter. He published comic illustrated cautionary tales from 1859, achieving his most notable works in the 1870s. Busch's illustrations used wood engraving, and later, zincography.
Busch drew on contemporary parochial and city life, satirizing Catholicism, Philistinism, strict religious morality and bigotry. His comic text was colourful and entertaining, using onomatopoeia, neologisms and other figures of speech, and led to some work being banned by the authorities.
Busch was influential in both poetry and illustration, and became a source for future generations of comic artists. The Katzenjammer Kids was inspired by Busch's Max and Moritz, one of a number of imitations produced in Germany and the United States. The Wilhelm Busch Prize and the Wilhelm Busch Museum help maintain his legacy. His 175th anniversary in 2007 was celebrated throughout Germany. Busch remains one of the most influential poets and artists in Western Europe.
Max and Moritz
Max and Moritz (A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks) (original: Max und Moritz - Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen) is a German language illustrated story in verse. This highly inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865. It is among the early works of Busch, nevertheless it already features many substantial, effectually aesthetic and formal regularities, procedures and basic patterns of Busch's later works. Many familiar with comic strip history consider it to have been the direct inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids and Quick & Flupke. The German title satirizes the German custom of giving a subtitle to the name of dramas in the form of "Ein Drama in ... Akten" (A Drama in ... Acts), which became dictum in colloquial usage for any event with an unpleasant or dramatic course, e.g. "Bundespräsidentenwahl - Drama in drei Akten" (Federal Presidential Elections - Drama in Three Acts).
Pious Helene
The story of a girl who's sent to the countryside where people are supposedly better than in the city. However, Helene is more hypocritical than pious, and likes to play pranks on her relatives. Not however on her cousin Franz, with whom she falls in love, despite the fact he's supposed to become a Catholic priest. They keep up their relationship even after she marries, and he becomes the real father of her twins.
