![]() He soon mastered lithography and landed a job at La Caricature, a journal known for berating King Louis-Philippe’s bourgey government which was wildly corrupt. He quit his job a year later and began working at a bookstore where he was introduced to caricaturing.įinally at the ripe age of 16, Daumier was allowed to attend art school and work for a lithographer named Belliard. This instilled in little Honoré a compassion for the ordinary and downtrodden citizens of France not unlike himself. ![]() Honoré did however request to work in an artistic field but that was his dad’s thing so he was forced to work in a bailiff’s office (some prime parenting skills right there). Actually it was more like he wouldn’t as he had a bad stutter and rarely spoke. His father was an aspiring poet so in order to support himself, he put his 12 year old to work. Honoré Daumier was born in 1808 in Marseille, France. ![]() ![]() Honoré Daumier single handedly ruined the right of (relatively) free press in France in the 1830s.īut I’m getting ahead of myself so I’ll start from the beginning.
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