The Painter of Small Joys In the bustling atmosphere of nineteenth-century Germany, a man emerged whose brush was as much a tool of humor as it was of fine art. Born in Hamburg, August Roeseler moved toward the artistic heart of Munich, where his life would become deeply intertwined with the local culture. He was a man of many disciplines, working as a painter, draftsman, etcher, and caricaturist. His hands were never idle, moving betw…