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23. Feb. 2016 · Master of a prose style that qualifies him as perhaps the last of the great 19th-century authors... his most enduring interest is a fellow polymath, an 18th-century German named Matthias Buchinger. (Charles McGrath The New York Times )
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English. 150 pages : 26 cm. Published to accompany the exhibition "Wordplay : Matthias Buchinger's inventive drawings from the collection of Ricky Jay," held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 5-April 11, 2016. Includes bibliographical references.
Matthias Buchinger: "The Greatest German Living": By Ricky Jay Whose Peregrinations in Search of the "Little Man of Nuremberg" Are Herein Revealed : Jay, Ricky: Amazon.de: Bücher
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5. Jan. 2016 · In the way it exhumes a pre-Enlightenment eccentric, Jay’s The Greatest Living German provides a much-needed introduction to a valuable, lost wunderkammer. But Jay’s work is also a polymathic replica of the zeitgeist of languages and wonders in which Buchinger lived and worked.
3. März 2016 · Buchinger, who stood 29 inches tall and described himself as “The Greatest German Living,” fits the bill. Not only did he lack hands and feet but also thighs and a good portion of his arms,...
An artist and performer, he "traveled all over Northern Europe to entertain kings and aristocrats as well as hoi polloi with amazing feats of physical dexterity" and was known as “The Greatest German Living” and "Little Man from Nuremberg".
1. Juni 2016 · “The Greatest German Living” By Ricky Jay. Illustrated. 150 pp. Siglio. $39.95. In Ricky Jay’s sumptuous, scholarly, witty new book, “Matthias Buchinger: ‘The Greatest German Living,’ ” the...
