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Simplicissimus

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Simplicissimus
from callowness to audacity on 17th-century battlefields. [Ger. Lit.: Simplicissimus]


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A shift within the galleries to a more explicit brand of humor began with Thomas Theodor Heine's bronze sculpture Der Teufel (The Devil), 1902-1903, a lumbering monstrosity that Heine created, along with its famous red-dog mascot, for the Munich-based satiric periodical Simplicissimus.
But Bayles's attempt to trace the links of the chain between the ideas of Andre Breton and the Cafe Simplicissimus and the antics of the likes of Iggy Pop and Genesis P-Orridge is strained and almost certainly irrelevant.
 
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