A Little Pug in an Enormous Red Armchair, Thomas Theodor Heine, 1902
A tiny, touching pug puppy is literally drowning in a sumptuous velvet armchair of a rich scarlet. Heine was a master of German Jugendstil and one of the founders of the legendary satirical magazine Simplicissimus; he was born in Leipzig in 1867, received a classical education at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, and became known chiefly as a caricaturist and graphic artist.
Because of his Jewish origins and anti-fascist views, he was forced to flee Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933, living in Prague and Oslo, and spent his last years in Stockholm, where he went on drawing until his death in 1948.
