Heinrich Zille
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Rudolf Heinrich Zille (January 10, 1858 - August 9, 1929), German illustrator and photographer, was born in Radeburg near Dresden, as the son of watchmaker Johann Traugott Zill (Zille since 1854) and Ernestine Louise (born Heinitz). In 1867, his family moved to Berlin, where he finished school in 1872 and started an apprenticeship as a lithographer.
In 1883, he married Hulda Frieske, with whom he had three children. She died in 1919.
Zille became best known for his (often funny) drawings, catching the characteristics of people, especially "stereotypes", mainly from Berlin and many of them published in the German weekly satirical newspaper Simplicissimus.
More unknown is, that he was the artist of many erotic pictures, which are close to pornography, but also show the life of normal people. Some of them can be seen in the Beate Uhse Erotic Museum in Berlin. In 1983 director Werner W. Wallroth has made an east-German movie, based on a musical written by Dieter Wardetzky and Peter Rabenalt. This movie Zille und Ick (Zille and me in Berlinian Dialect) isn't a real biopic, but uses pats of Zille's life for the story.
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