Vicco von Bülow, alias Loriot, is one of Germany's most important humorists. His famous bulbous-nosed figures and catchphrases such as "Oh what" and "There used to be more tinsel" are already part of our cultural memory.
The exhibition focuses in particular on Loriot as an artist and presents original drawings from his childhood and youth to his late work. With his razor-sharp powers of observation, Loriot's humor is aimed directly at the self-image of petit-bourgeois society from the 1950s to the 1980s and literally holds up a mirror to it.
Numerous works - in words and pictures - develop their very own comedy and thus become testimonies to the finest social criticism. But the show also sheds light on his work as a writer, actor and director. Wum and Wendelin, the duck and the Hoppenstedts are not to be missed. A themed section also tells the story of how Loriot's exhibition came about in his native town of Brandenburg an der Havel in 1985 - at a time when it was not a matter of course for West German artists to be honored in the former GDR.
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