Die Brei Gerechten Namacher - 1915
I love the intricacy and emotion of these images. Published in 1915 about three German comb makers working for a master craftsman, the story has a dark ending. I especially love the image of the three men fighting with a wild creature. TMP 9/18/22“The Three Just Comb Makers…is a novella by the Swiss poet Gottfried Keller . Written in Berlin in 1855 and first published in 1856 in the collection The People of Seldwyla , it is one of Keller's better-known stories today and is regarded as an example of a realistic grotesque . The story is about three German journeymen who work for a Seldwyler master craftsman , all three hardworking, frugal, frugal, calculating and conflict-averse. Despite this – or precisely because of this – they become bitter rivals: everyone wants to buy the comb-making business, and everyone wants to marry the same wealthy maid. A decisive race ensues, which ends badly for two of the journeymen. But even the winner ends ingloriously as a henpecked husband.” Wikipedia
