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Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper

Object | Accession Number: 1991.182.11

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    Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    In 1934, something some Nazi had written. This was it: "How high Horst Wessel towers over that Jesus of Nazereth." Horst Wessel was a rough neck, a panderer, one of Hitler's hooligans. He was killed in a street brawl, and he is a Nazi hero. This is the way the Nazis really feel about the Church. They once tried to prove that Jesus was a Nordic.
    Artwork Title
    The Nazis verspotten Jesus Christus
    Subtitle
    The King of the Jews
    Series Title
    11 in a series of 31
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1940 October 22
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
    Signature
    lower left of image, in pencil, "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
    Image of two Nazi soldiers, bearing a swastika armband, smiling/laughing up at either a sculpture of Jesus Christ on the cross, or Christ himself, very realistic; set in a church.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, charcoal, graphite, ink, adhesive
    Inscription
    lower left, in pencil, "The Nazis verspotten Jesus Christ", (written in hand other than artist's); and "Please careful!."

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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 13:23:35
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