The end of the 19th century marked the beginning of a hitherto unknown era in art. While art had until then been viewed from a predominantly aesthetic perspective, art experienced a connection with typography and advertising. Until then, paintings had preferred to be presented on fine canvas, but now paintings were competing with the medium of the poster. The creation of advertising media was in the hands of lithographers and draughtsmen who showed little talent in the artistic field. The increasing industrialisation made advertising a flourishing branch of industry. Artists increasingly took over the artistic design of attractive posters. In Paris Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec caused a sensation with his advertising for the city's dance theatres. In London, offices developed that were completely specialized in artistic advertising. A new art form called advertising technique was established.
Alick Ritchie was born in Scotland under the name Alexander Penrose Forbes Ritchie. He studied at the Belgian Academy of Arts and chose London as his home. Here he worked in the wide field of advertising. Ritchie was a caricaturist, designed posters for the London Underground and contributed images to various magazines. Alick Ritchie became famous for his portraits. He often painted public figures. Actors like Charlie Chaplin and politicians like Winston Churchill belonged to his motives. Ritchie painted portraits that were detached from reality. The faces often have a mask-like expression. Angular surfaces are fragmented by dark lines and the colour palette is reduced to a few nuances. In the portraits a beginning abstraction can be seen. If an art-historical classification were to be made on the basis of appearance, the works would be assigned to Cubism. Cubism, however, did not have a clear stylistic direction. Contemporaries report that Alick Ritchie mocked the development of Cubism. The portraits can therefore be classified as caricatures and thus a fine form of satire.
Alick P.F. Ritchie designed a total of three series for cigarette cards. Among them are some of the most famous portraits of the artist, which in this context are openly referred to as caricatures. At that time, cigarette manufacturers issued so-called cigarette cards to stabilize the packaging. Many well-known artists made pictures for the cards. Ritchie designed his straight-lined caricatures in 1926, with which he achieved great fame. In 1934 he created Animalloys a card set with 48 individual pictures. The cards showed the head, front legs, torso and hind legs of each animal. One animal could be put together from three cards. The syllables of the animal names were also divided on three cards. The eager smoker could thus combine fantasy animals and the matching names. An idea which the artist had already realised in earlier years as an illustrator in a book. Later, Ritchie made a series with a film reference and thus returned to the art of caricature.
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.jpg "Charlie Chaplin, British Film Actor and Director by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Lord Lonsdale, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, British businessman, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, British Grocer and Yachtsman by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Rudyard Kipling, British Writer and Poet by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Fugitives from Antwerp crossing the Pontoon Bridge over the Scheldt by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Alan Cobham, British Pioneer Aviator by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir William Orpen, British Painter by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Mr Philip Whitwell-Wilson, PWW, Vanity Fair Cartoon by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "G.K. Chesterton, British Poet, Novelist and Critic, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British politician by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Jack Hobbs, British Cricketer by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir James Matthew Barrie, Author of Peter Pan by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, Lord Chief Justice and Diplomat by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Field Marshal Earl Haig, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Henry Wood by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "James Henry Thomas, British Trade Unionist and Politician by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British Field Marshal, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Douglas Fairbanks, American Film Actor by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Mr Robert Loraine by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Lord Woolavington, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Lord Derby by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "William Joynson-Hicks, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, British politician by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "James Buchanan, 1st Baron Woolavington, British Philanthropist and Racehorse Owner, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, British Sportsman, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Aga Khan III Mohammed Shah, Leader of the Ismailis by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Stanley Baldwin, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Mr William McAuliffe by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Lord Beaverbrook, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Charles John Darling, 1st Baron Darling, British Judge by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Charles W Macara by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George, British Prime Minister by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "The Founder of the Aero Club by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Guglielmo Marconi, Italian Inventor by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Oliver Lodge, British physicist by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "F.E. Smith, Earl of Birkenhead, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir William Orpen, R.A., R.I. by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Jack Hobbs, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Augustus John, British painter, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Hall Caine by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, Bart., 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Austen Chamberlain, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "George Grossmith by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish Comedian by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Matheson Lang, Canadian Actor-Manager and Dramatist by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Statesman and Newspaper Proprietor by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir John Martin-Harvey, British actor and theatre manager by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Herbert Asquith, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "George Bernard Shaw, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Admiral, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Oscar Asche by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "John Wheatley, M.P., 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Lt-Gen. Sir R. Baden-Powell, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford, British Statesman by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin, British Prime Minister by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, British painter, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "G. K. Chesterton, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, British Cricketer, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, Ulster leader and advocate, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Austen Chamberlain, British politician by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "George Grossmith Junior, British actor, manager and playwright by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Mr Lucien Wolf, Diplomaticus, 20 December 1911, Vanity Fair cartoon by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Arthur James Balfour by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Augustus John, R.A., 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Henry Joseph Wood, British Conductor, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Gerald du Maurier by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Stephen Donoghue, Jockey and Trainer by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Douglas Fairbanks by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Harry Lauder, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Sir Hall Caine, British novelist by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Steve Donoghue by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "David Lloyd George, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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.jpg "Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, Lord Chancellor, 1926 by Alick P. F. Ritchie")
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