Walter Hanel

He started drawing as a very young child, and later studied the art in all its aspects: life drawing, portraits animal drawings, still life. Walter Hanel, born in 1930 in Teplitz-Schönau (now Teplice in the Czech Republic) wanted to become a painter; it was to his benefit and to the benefit of many newspaper readers that he stuck to pen and ink and to the art of drawing in order to describe the times he lived in through his satirical caricatures. This book contains a large selection of applied art: commissioned caricatures, the freestyle Memento-Mori still lives of his animalist nightmares and the more recent cerebral landscapes, somewhat dumbfounded, but also inspiring for the viewer, pictures that have made up Hanel’s broad pictorial cosmos during recent decades.