Art prints by Heinrich Zille.
Heinrich Zille's "Milljöh" - these are the damp apartments, the desolate backyards and the endless rows of dreary tenements in Berlin's former working-class districts. Above all, however, it is the people who were forced to (survive) here. The "father of the street" dedicated his work to them. His pen captured humorous everyday scenes just as accurately as he depicted the cruelest misery with compassion. Standing at the focal point, Heinrich Zille experienced the hectic twenties, his prints revealing their "golden" appearance and showing the reality of the deepest social contrasts. However, he was often misunderstood, degraded to the status of a joke artist in view of his many humorous works of popular life and his popularity was ruthlessly exploited for commercial purposes. "It hurts when you have to sell seriousness as a joke," writes the artist.