Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908)

Death: 9th January 1908
Location: Mechtshausen Friedhof, Mechtshausen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Photo taken by: AxelHH
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German caricaturist and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts. One of his first picture stories, Max and Moritz (1865), was an immediate success and has achieved the status of a popular classic and perennial bestseller; it is regarded as one of the main precursors of the modern comic strip. Busch has become posthumously known in German by the honorary epithet of Großvater der Comics (Grandfather of Comics).


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