{"id":20326,"date":"2014-09-03T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=20326"},"modified":"2014-10-03T08:14:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:14:05","slug":"paul-hindemith-the-doodler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/09\/03\/paul-hindemith-the-doodler\/","title":{"rendered":"FITS & BURSTS | Paul Hindemith, the Doodler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Hindemith, drawing a picture on the wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many people know\u00a0Hindemith as a\u00a0composer \u2013 but he was\u00a0also\u00a0a\u00a0consummate doodler, producing over 350 bizarre and often humorous freehand drawings over his lifetime.\u00a0They were mostly small pictures on various media including napkins and tablecloths, envelopes or memo notes, and sometimes entire\u00a0walls.<\/p>\n

As the story goes, his\u00a0drawings developed after he was introduced to the surrealist parlour game \u201ccadavre exquis” (\u201cexquisite corpse\u201d), whereby one-by-one participants\u00a0added to a drawing in sequence, passing it around the room. The results are hilariously unpredictable, and often\u00a0resulted in strange creatures made out of\u00a0human, animal, and machine parts.<\/p>\n

Hindemith also liked to make his own Christmas cards, and drew them for close friends and family every year, for over 20 years. One interesting feature of his drawings is that he\u00a0liked to include lion figures, which were symbolic of his wife, Gertrud Hindemith and her Zodiacal Leo birth sign. They appear in many of his scores as well.<\/p>\n