A little man attempts to claim his pension but is confronted by nonsensical bureaucracy. Colour process print after H. Nymark, 1977.

Denmark : Lundbeck & co., c. 1980 (Vang Rasmussen)

1 print : process print, printed in colours

According to the computer your age is 11£ so I am afraid you do not qualify for a pension. Social security. How to obtain benefits. Social security - how to obtain benefits, continued. Continued at the next counter. Harald Nymark -77

A-E. Brade, Senior Lecturer at the Medical Historical Museum at the University of Copenhagen, has given some details about Harald Nymark, the illustrator, in a letter to the Wellcome Institute (dated 13.4.1981). Nymark was educated in advertising and lithography, in which he went on to work professionally for some twenty-five years. Then, as a patient at the State Psychiatric Hospital near Arhus (Jutland), he produced the series "The Small Patient", which he finished after his discharge. The Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck & Co. bought the series and published it in 12 languages. Nymark later worked as an illustrator for newspapers and children's books

Wellcome Collection 18197i