Paul Flora & Felizitas von Schönborn
Wie’s halt so kommt

»Paul Flora never comes across as wickedly or aggressively derisory, rather lovingly mocking, and always appears to be just beyond reach – slightly amused and with a twinkle in his eye – a little like God Himself.«Marion Gräfin Dönhoff

»He has created Germany’s most beautiful caricatures although he isn’t a caricaturist. He has a sense of subversive and cryptic humour although he isn’t a humorist. Paul Flora is a ›graphic writer‹ like no one else and a great drawer with his very own style: You won’t find a better one. His reminiscences please and instruct. He speaks as – what a rare combination! – important artist and likeable coeval alike.« Börsenblatt

»A biography, which does not only show Paul Flora to be wise, but which shows him to be a man who is always up to tricks and an unconventional coeval at the same time, as sovereign of a fantastic realm created with pen and Indian ink, a realm, which is full of gloomy villains, risible tyrants, canting churchmen, despotic ladies, harlequins, Venetian masks, senescent poets laureates who are holding hands with muses and dozens of ravens, ›people and other animals‹ - drawn with fine and subtle lines - that take up their position in ›Flora’s Fauna‹. This biography is like a living panopticon of Austria’s cultural and contemporary history, drawn with fine and a little gibbing Flora-strokes.« Tages-Anzeiger