Children good as gold

Next to these two books, we also had a closer look at the huge amount of drawings Kirchner made for magazines and novels (the latter where often first published serially in magazines before being released as separate volumes). In these works, many more interesting drawings of children can be found, such as for example:

• some (minor) work for the Wiener Illustrierte Frauen-Zeitung (small drawings of children used as fillers) and for Culina (cf. the second edition of the Kirchner-catalogue(*), p. 229);
• an advertisement for cod-liver oil in Der Floh;
• a drawing in the text and a very delicate plate for the novel Etreintes Mystiques by Lyonne de Lespinasse;
• a drawing for L’Ingénue by Félicien Champsaur;
• the many winged cupids Kirchner drew for Félicien Champsaur’s Le Bandeau, for the cover of Les Epaves de L’Amour by Victorien du Saussay, for some water colours in La Vie Parisienne, for some plates in the American weekly Puck…;
• the rather surrealistic plates IV & V of the Dreams-set Kirchner published in Puck;
• two illustrations with children dressed as soldiers and nurses, entitled 'La Petite Guerre en 1915’ (for a comment on these prints, see the first edition of the Kirchner catalogue(**), p. 19);
• a menu card with an advertisement for Champagne Dufaut Fils & Cie (cf. the second edition of the Kirchner-catalogue(*), p. 231);
• an advertisement for a sale of children’s clothes at the Grands Magasins du Louvre in Paris;
• etc, etc.