During World War One, he used satire and absurdity to poke fun at German propaganda
William Heath Robinson became famous for absurd cartoons like this one, Folding Garden
His sketches of bizarre mechanical gadgets led to his name becoming synonymous with the absurdly ingenious.The William Heath Robinson MuseumHaving trained at Islington School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, Heath Robinson had ambitions of becoming a landscape painter. He would also create illustrations of over-elaborate gadgets and inventions in order to send up the absurdity of human nature and its fondness for bureaucracy.
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