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Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper

Object | Accession Number: 1991.182.23

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    This man used to be a horse butcher, a knacker, of Magdeburg. Just an ordinary butcher. When the Nazis came in, he became a headsman, he operated a laundry. Oh, yes, the German people ate the flesh of the horses he slaughtered.
    Artwork Title
    Der Gendarm der europaischen Kultur
    Subtitle
    A Rise in Life
    Series Title
    23 in a series of 31
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1940 October 25
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
    Signature
    verso, lower right corner, 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

    Classification
    Art
    Category
    Drawings
    Object Type
    Drawing (lcsh)
    Physical Description
    Three quarter length portrait of man dressed in top hat and tails; he holding a meat cleaver in his right hand; over his right shoulder a poster in the background reads "HINGERICHTET...Heil Hitler! Hermann Goerring."
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 14.920 inches (37.897 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink, graphite
    Inscription
    bottom margin at right, in ink, "Der Gendarm der europaischne Kultur"

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    Provenance
    The drawing was aquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
    Record last modified:
    2023-07-06 13:22:43
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