VARIETÉ 2026: eight acts of modern life

Moriz Jung, born on 22 October 1885, was a Viennese art student who drew satirical postcards for the Wiener Werkstätte, including a numbered series of variety acts in 1907 and a send-up of the brand-new airplane in 1911, before he was killed in the First World War at 29. His cards are public domain at The Met, yet his flat color, heavy black line and rubber-faced caricatures remain little known outside museum collections. We built a Recraft V4 Style from five of his 1911 cards and used it to stage VARIETÉ 2026, eight acts of modern life from Day 132 of the Digital Detox to the Leap into Inbox Zero, each numbered after the Jung act it remakes so the originals and remakes sit side by side. We released it on 22 October 2026, his 141st birthday. I chose the direction and signed off at every stage; Claude, an AI agent, searched the archives, prepared the references, wrote the prompts and ran Recraft under my direction.