''Meggendorfer-Blätter'' was a

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art and satirical magazine, which was published in Munich, Germany, from 1888 to 1944. The magazine was closely related to the

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and painter

Lothar Meggendorfer Lothar Meggendorfer (6 November 1847 in Munich – 7 July 1925 in Munich) was a German illustrator and early cartoonist known for his pop-up books. He was first published in 1862 in the '' Fliegende Blätter'', an illustrated comic weekly, and fr ...

(1847-1925).

History and profile

The magazine was started in 1888 under the name ''Aus Lothar Meggendorfers lustiger Bildermappe''. From 1890 and 1897, it was called ''Meggendorfers Humoristische Blätter''. Then it was renamed ''Meggendorfer-Blätter'' until 1925. In 1928, it merged with ''

Fliegende Blätter The ' ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") was a German weekly humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Cou ...

'', a German weekly non-political satirical magazine. The magazine had its headquarters in

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. Lothar Meggendorfer was the publisher of the magazine who left it in 1905. He was also instrumental in selecting the content and appearance of the journal and contributed to the journal through illustrations for jokes,

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and poems, caricatures as well as stories told in pictorial form. Josef Mauder succeeded Meggendorfer as the director of the magazine. The contributor illustrators included Julius Klinger, Josef Mukarovsky (1851-1921), Otto Bromberger (1862-1943) and Victor Schramm (1865-1929). Mila Von Luttich, an

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painter and illustrator, published her

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in the magazine between 1902 and 1914. Franziska Schlopsnies (1884-1944),

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painter and illustrator deported to

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, also published her illustrations in the magazine between 1926 and 1927.

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