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Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper

Object | Accession Number: 1991.182.10

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    Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    This man is a newspaper publisher and what a newspaper DER STUERMER is! Obscene, ranting, Streicher, one of Hitler's earliest supporters, is Nazi commissioner for Franconia, and is violently antisemitic.
    Artwork Title
    Der Stürmer
    Subtitle
    The Press
    Series Title
    10 in a series of 31
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1940 October 22
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
    Signature
    Verso, in ink "William Sharp"
    Contributor
    Artist: William Sharp
    Biography
    Leon Schleifer was born in 1900 in Germany. He served in the German army at the end of World War I (1914-1918). He became a political cartoonist and his work was published in the anti-Nazi press. He also specialized in courtroom trial sketches. After the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, Schliefer emigrated to the United States. He changed his name to William Sharp and continued his career as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator. His work was published in the New York Times, Life Magazine, and other publications. He died in 1961, age sixty-one years.

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Classification
    Art
    Category
    Drawings
    Object Type
    Drawing (lcsh)
    Physical Description
    Half length, right profile image; slobbering bald man wearing sandwich sign that appears to be the top half of the newspaper Der Steurmer, with the words "Herausgeber: Julius Streicher" underneath heading.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 19.020 inches (48.311 cm) | Width: 13.270 inches (33.706 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink, charcoal, watercolor, adhesive
    Inscription
    On signboard "HERAUSGEBER: Julius Streicher"

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The drawing was aquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
    Record last modified:
    2023-07-06 13:23:38
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