The Daily Valdemar No. 45: April 27

Valdemar Andersen, for the satirical magazine Klods-Hans, September 20, 1908.

Today's moment of calm is a dialogue of two continents.

They are an ocean apart, but if we cut them out, their outlines would fit together. Where his sharp lines confront her, her softly rounded lines shrink back, yet she is keeping up against his aggression. He is puffing himself up to take up as much of the paper as he possibly can. His figure is in the flat, accented by the uninterrupted pattern of his trousers. He is the boisterous drama on the picture plane, but while she is ethereal to the point of being see-through she is grounded in the depth of the paper with a hint of black shoes as shiny as his. 

Dagny Brincken is presented by her marital status on the cartoon so let her full name be known here, in company with her co-actor Albrecht Schmidt in the comedy Den røde Hane (The Red Rooster) by Palle Rosenkrantz with a semi-biographical storyline on abuse exerted by a local bailiff.

What should be a visually imbalanced composition features a mutual tension, which remains in full force.