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Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper

Object | Accession Number: 1991.182.27

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    Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    That is Alfred Rosenberg, the intellectual of the Nazi pafty [sic], most ardent of the paganists. The Nazis couldn't reconcile Christianity and Hitlerism so here is Rosenberg as a Wotan in a wold skin and a striped undershirt. The gibbets stand, the cross is broken.
    Artwork Title
    Alfred Rosenberg - Wotan of the Third Reich
    Subtitle
    Valhalla
    Series Title
    27 in a series of 31
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1940 October 27
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
    Signature
    lower right corner, in charcoal, "Wm. 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
    Three quarter portrait of a Viking, wearing a spiked helmet with a swastika, a wolf skin, and a striped undershirt; he holds a spiked club and dagger; in background behind him, gallows with dead are in view, backed by a dark sky
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, charcoal, ink, graphite, watercolor
    Inscription
    Verso, lower right corner, in ink, "Alfred Rosenberg. / Wotan of the Third Reich"

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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 13:22:28
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