{"id":27246,"date":"2024-08-26T16:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27246"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:11:36","slug":"destiny-a-novel-in-pictures-by-otto-nuckel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/08\/26\/destiny-a-novel-in-pictures-by-otto-nuckel\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny, A Novel in Pictures by Otto N\u00fcckel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward are the two names most commonly associated with the “wordless novel” of the 1920s and 30s, but there was another significant contributor to the form, Otto N\u00fcckel (1888\u20131955), a German artist whose Schicksal, Eine Geschicte in Bildern<\/em><\/a> was one of the spurs for Ward to try something similar. I hadn’t seen N\u00fcckel’s book before, the pictures here being taken from an American reprint from 1930. The general tone is very similar to Masereel’s The City<\/em> (1925), with the difference that Destiny<\/em> depicts a single, tragic life in a nameless European metropolis where Masereel presents a tapesty of city-wide lives and events. The artistic styles differ but all three artists used engraving to create their pictures, a technique that no doubt helped sustain an aura of seriousness about these projects, keeping at bay any association with disreputable comic strips. Masereel and Ward used wood for their medium while N\u00fcckel preferred to engrave on lead plates. His book is still in print today via Dover Publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward are the two names most commonly associated with the “wordless novel” of the 1920s and 30s, but there was another significant contributor to the form, Otto N\u00fcckel (1888\u20131955), a German artist whose Schicksal, Eine Geschicte in Bildern was one of the spurs for Ward to try something similar. I hadn’t … Continue reading “Destiny, A Novel in Pictures by Otto N\u00fcckel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,42],"tags":[7044,1709,13626],"class_list":["post-27246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","tag-frans-masereel","tag-lynd-ward","tag-otto-nuckel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-75s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}