Eduard
Thony was born in Germany in 1866. When
Albert Langen, started Simplicissimus
in 1896, he invited Thony to contribute to the journal.
In 1906 several staff members, including Thony Olaf
Gulbransson, Ludwig Thoma, Thomas
Heine and Rudolf Wilke persuaded Albert
Langen to change Simplicissimus
into a
joint stock company. This gave more power to the staff to control
the direction of the journal.
His drawings appeared in the journal until it ceased publication in
1944. Thony specialized in caricatures of military types. He saw himself
as an illustrator rather than a cartoonist and although he decided
on the subject matter, did not write the captions. Eduard Thony died
in 1950.
In 1898 Eduard
Thony produced this
drawing of Thomas
Heine, Albert
Langen
and Frank
Wedekind after they appeared
in court for a libellous copy of Simplicissimus
.
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