Watercolour and pencil on cardboard;
Signed lower right, titled upper right;
11.4 x 7.1 in inch framed;
‘Caricature without bite, drasticness and sharpness makes no sense to me. I've often been accused of tastelessness and brutal humour. Who, if not a satirist, should call a spade a spade?’
As a multi-talented artist, Manfred Deix was a graphic designer, cartoonist and poet all in one. With his art, he provoked, shocked and shook up taboos like few Austrian artists before him. Celebrities, politicians, dignitaries, but also the regulars at the pub or the neighbour next door served as his targets. Deix's works have been published in magazines and newspapers such as Profil, Trend, Spiegel, Stern, Playboy, Die Zeit, Titanic and News. In addition to countless solo exhibitions and publications, the term Deix figure in the Duden dictionary and Austria's first fully animated cinema film ROTZBUB - der DEIX Film (2021) are testament to the artist's popularity. (Caricature Museum Krems)
