Kley's Winter

Kley's WinterThe wacky wonderland of a master artistThe Human, The Bestial, the inanimate: in the world of the late German artist Heinrich Kley, these met on equal terms. They fraternized and merged, forming a gay, gemutlich' phantasmagoria where alligators skated with nude women and nude women obligingly became ski-slopes for diminutive sportsmen. Kley's approach to line drawing was looser, less stylized than most of the illustrators of his period. His uninhibited pen, spinning narcotic nightma...