Zille, Rudolf Heinrich

(1/101858 Radeburg-8/9/1929 Berlin) (Germany); aka pseudonym Pfeiffer, W / Zille, Heinrich

   Painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, illustrator, and writer. His father was a goldsmith. At a young age he became a lithographer's apprentice. Studied at the Hochschule for Bildende Kunste. In 1924 he becomes a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. His work tended to show the lives of the poor and suffering. His erotic work included the book Hurengesprache gehort ("Whores' conversations overheard") 1913 wherein eight prostitutes tell about their lives.

   Reproductions: Bitch-talks illustration; 1913; lithograph; Klinger, 1983a: figs. 1487-1500 . [Couples having sex in bedrooms], from the Whore talk series; 1921; lithograph; Dopp, 2000: p. 199 / Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 230 [C]. [Girl fellates card-playing man under a table], from the Whore talk series; 1921; lithograph; Dopp, 2000: p. 199 [C]. Girls in the brothel; Brusendorff, 1960d: p. 125 [B]. Illustrations from Huerenge-spraeche; Orgies, 1969: pp. 200-201 [B]. In the quarters of the Tingel-Tangel-women; lithograph; Bilder-Lexikon vol. 4: p. 926 [B]. [Nude woman rides on the back of an older man in a military uniform]; 1930; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 227 [C]. Sisterly love on back; c1921; watercolor over chalk; Dopp, 2000: p. 198 [C].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 14: p. 1372; DoA vol. 33: p. 677; "Heinrich Zille: social pornography," in Pornography in fine art form ancient times up to the present, by Poul Gerhard (S.l.: Elysium, c1969); ThB XXXVI 1947: p. 500.