As of: March 9, 2024, 7:11 a.m
By: Peter Herrmann
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Recognized himself in the cartoons: Mayor Michael Müller (from left).
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Loriot exhibition in the gallery on Elbestrasse is very popular with visitors in Geretsried.
Geretsried - Last year, the Isar-Loisach Cultural Association (KIL) commemorated the 100th birthday of Vicco von Bülow - better known as Loriot - who died in 2011 with numerous events.
Now some of his works can be seen in the gallery on Elbestrasse.
Even before Heini Zapf and the “Grupo Sestorka” from the Geretsried Music School had opened the vernissage, around 60 visitors laughed at Loriot’s framed caricatures.
Art with charm in Geretsried: Loriot's drawings
Whether the mandolin-playing dog Wum, the “allotment gardener Bernhard” or “new items from the inventors’ fair” – most of the drawings have lost none of their charm, even many decades after their publication.
“We recognize ourselves in the cartoons,” said Mayor Michael Müller enthusiastically.
In memory of the great humorist even after his 100th birthday in Geretsried art exhibition
Anita Zwicknagl from the city's Department of Culture & Archives and KIL chairwoman Assunta Tammelleo were pleased about the large number of visitors.
“This great humorist can still be remembered even after his 100th birthday,” noted Tammelleo.
Loriot's daughter Susanne von Bülow made the drawings, created in the 1950s and 1960s, available.
They could already be seen in the house of the Art and Nature Foundation in Nantesbuch in the summer of 2023 and later in the Hollerhaus in Irschenhausen.
The exhibition “The Completely Open Letter” also shows two original sketches that the honorary citizen Loriot once gave to his home community of Münsing, as well as plastic and bronze figures and posters that belonged to the Bülow family.