Siegfried

Not much is known about the painting we present today. Well, it offers a lonely pug sitting on a beautiful red armchair. Maybe he is waiting for his master or dreaming about going for a walk. He looks a bit melancholic to me, to be honest. His name is Siegfried, which sounds like the best possible name for him.

What is known though, is that the painting was created by Thomas Theodor Heine, a German painter and illustrator. In 1896, he became successful as an illustrator for the satirical Munich magazine Simplicissimus, for which he appropriated the stylistic idiom of Jugendstil and the graphic qualities of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley, and Japanese woodcuts. It seems that Heine was a dog person; there is a famous poster of Simplicissimus made by him with a red French Bulldog, which is now in the collections of many museums (including MoMA). 

Have a great Saturday everyone!  : )

P.S. Here are all the sweetest puppies, doggies, and pugs in art!  <3