Moriz Jung - Early aviation artwork - Wiener Werkstätte - Duke of Gramatneiss's Famous Pack of Birds
A Satirical View of Early Flight: Wiener Werkstätte Postcards by Moriz Jung Jung's series on flight, printed in 1911, is among his most memorable. The six satirical prints poke fun at early aviation. Though Jung was not the first artist to treat this subject matter, his images are bright and playful, and they hint at the somewhat dark Viennese sense of humor (a characteristic highlighted by other Wiener Werkstätte postcards as well). Jung's planes are based on real aircraft of the time. Tête à Tête on the 968th Floor of a Skyscraper is a reference to the French pilot M. Blériot, who made the first flight in an aircraft across the English Channel in 1909. The construction of the plane in this print and in Bloodless Giraffe Hunt looks similar to Blériot's plane as depicted in a trading card published by the Philadelphia Caramel Company (1910). The wings of the planes in the Aeroplegasus (Anzani Angines) and The Duke of Gramatneiss's Famous Pack of Birds look more like those of birds than in the other prints. For Aeroplegasus, this makes sense, as his mechanized flying horse is entirely fanciful. Planes were not used in combat before World War I. The jovial nature of Jung's cards, particularly of Bloodless Giraffe Hunt, makes clear that these early planes were not yet associated with war, despite the fact that a British officer named General John Money had realized the tactical advantages of flight for combat over a century earlier; in 1803, he wrote Treatise on the Use of Balloons, the first treatise on military ballooning. General Money had become interested in balloons after returning from the American Revolutionary War. William Sherlock's lithograph Major Money Adrift in the North Sea illustrates an incident in which a strong wind swept Money's balloon into the North Sea. Jung's First Ascent of Monte Domapozza in the Dolomites and Rainbow Obstacle also depict crashes due to natural causes - Theresa Ketterer - The Met
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