Robert Storm Petersen's (1882-1949) satirical universe is known especially from his series of drawings and text in newspapers such as Ekstra Bladet and the daily newspaper B.T., but he also painted watercolors and oil paintings, and drew many posters throughout his career.
The picture Broken strings from 1906-09, which this poster is reproduced on, shows another side of Storm P.'s artistic work than his humorous pictorial universe. Here, a violinist has drowned in the Seine in Paris, and his soul is depicted as a violin-playing angel in the sky.
