Please Raise a Glass to Gebhard Wagner When collecting old silhouettes, every so often I come across something which stops me in my tracks. “I wish I’d thought of that!” I say to myself. This is what happened when I first came across the…

Gebhard Wagner began his career as a #silhouettist cutting these evocative portraits of beer drinkers at the Munich #Hofbrauhaus. Here is a blog I wrote about him after visiting it last month.
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Silhouette of a man with wide-brimmed hat, wing collar and spectacles facing right on an old, blank postcard

Reverse of the postcard with printed inscriptions reading: SOUVENIR de l'Exposition Internationale des Arts décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, PARIS, 1925 ARNOLDO PACIFICI, Silhouettiste Caricaturiste Kiosque a l'Entrée du Parc des Attractions, Rue Torricelli N° 20 Paris (17°)

Silhouette cut by Arnold Pacifici in Paris in 1925 (exactly one hundred years ago). I have a number of silhouettes by this artist but know very little about him!
#silhouettist #silhouetteart