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Willy Pogany (1882 -1955) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Pogany Much more Pogany at ~ http://comicsbookstories.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/willy-pogany-parsifal-by-wagner.html http://smurfswacker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/willy-pogany-retrospective.html http://www.bkkbooks.com/John-Tenniel-Illustrated-1st-edition.htm http://www.nocloo.com/gallery2/v/willy-pogany-tanglewood-tales/pogany-tanglewood01.jpg.html http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Willy%20Pogany…

View Forty-four Turkish fairy tales Pl 24 by Willy Pogany and other Artworks on Artvee

The Hungarian artist, Willy Pogany, created art in various styles and illustrated a wide array of subjects. However, from the beginning of his career until the end, Willy was renowned for his artworks drawn from myths and legends. Odysseus, Odin, Cuchullain…he depicted them all in classic illustrati

This is a story about a man, some monkeys . . . and also the god of the monkeys! In the Preface to this book, Shelton refers to the legend that the people of Tibet are descended from a wise old monkey ancestor; you can read about the legend of this monkey, named Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa, at Wikipedia. Explore: For other helpful animals, see How the Raven Saved the Hunter and The Ingratitude of Man. [notes by LKG] This story is part of the Tibetan Folktales unit. Story source: Tibetan Folk…

Willy Pogany ~ Parsifal by Richard Wagner ~ Crowell ~ 1912 ~ via Golden Age Comic Book Stories Illustration from Part VI - The Deliverer

Between 1910 and 1913 the ridiculously prolific illustrator William Pogany worked his magick on Richard Wagner's Tannhauser, Parsifal and Lohengrin. All of the Lohengrin material comes from this archive where I recommend you flip through it in book form. And the other two volumes were transferred from Golden Age Comic Book Stories where they have been lovingly and painstakingly scanned in their entirety! Also thanks to John Coulthart's Feuilleton for getting me started on the whole thing.

Willy Pogany (1882-1955) was born Vilmos Andreas Pogány in Szeged, Hungary, but he left his home country in 1902 and never lived there again. After shorts stays in Munich and Paris he moved to London in 1904. There he did his most famous illustrations, including a series of Wagnerian operas in 1910 to 1913. Pogany was influenced by both the great Edwardian illustrators, such as Arthur Rackham, and the current Art Nouveau style. In 1916 Pogany left London and moved to America, where he lived…