"Humour sharpens the sense of all that is human," says Peter Klier, a retired headmaster who turned his hobbies - opera and painting - into his livelihood a few years ago. He's since published several books of operatically-themed illustrations.
His recent Wagner-laweia repositions Richard Wagner's greatest operas in a seaside postcard world of bewbs and botties, dotted with the sort of details that only a true Wagnerite could conjure up. Here are a few samples:
Tristan und Isolde:
Tannhäuser lounges on Venus's berg:
Does Hans Sachs make clothes as well?:
Parsifal. He's a very naughty boy:
All illustrations by Peter Klier(c).
