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For this edition Hansi also modified the cover adding a broken swastika above a city in ruins.
The original from 1912 was illustrated by Hansi with 58 black and white drawings in and out of text and had 140 pp. This edition has 157 pages and a few more drawings.
"[In this work], Hansi had identified the ridiculous professor with his former headmaster of the Colmar Gymnasium, named Gustav Gneisse. The affair had consequences, since Gustav Gneisse, who had become the symbol of pan-Germanism and stupidity, was expelled from Alsace after 1918".
French writer, draftsman and caricaturist born and died in Colmar, Hansi magnificently embodied the French soul of Alsace through his texts and his drawings.
Hansi
Professor Knatschke. Selected works of the great German scholar and his daughter Elsa. Collected and illustrated for by Hansi faithfully translated into French by Dr. H.P. Colli.
Paris, H. Floury, 1947
in-8 of 157pp (complete)
Paperback copy, cover illustrated by Hansi.
Volume in excellent condition.
Subject: Alsace HANSI Professor Knatschke 1947 Increased Edition after the Two World Wars Patriotism Regionalism Satire Germany 67469321