Le Village Hansi & son Musée

About this audio guide

This guide to Le Village Hansi & son Musée in Colmar follows Jean-Jacques Waltz, the Alsatian artist known as Hansi, whose cheerful watercolors of children and village streets hid a sharper aim at German rule after eighteen seventy-one. It traces his rise as a satirist, from mocking German tourists to a bestselling book skewering German professors, and the fines and jail terms that followed. You will hear about the summer a tribunal in Leipzig sentenced him to a full year behind bars for it.