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Drawing by William Sharp

Object | Accession Number: 1995.132.30

Artwork Title: The Killing of Prisoners
Date: approximately 1930-1945 (creation)
Language: English
Classification: Art
Category: Drawings
Object Type: Drawing (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Harold Shachner

Physical Description: Image of two German soldiers lighting cigarettes, dead bodies on ground below.
Dimensions: overall : 19.880 x 15.000 in. (50.495 x 38.1 cm.)
Materials: overall : charcoal, ink, graphite, paper
Markings: Recto: in graphite, lower left corner "30-". Verso: "58" in graphite in upper right corner
Signature: lower left of image "William Sharp" in ink.
Inscription: Recto: English title in graphite, lower edge, left of center. Erased German title below.
Contributor: Artist: William Sharp
Biography: Leon Schliefer 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.
Personal Name: Sharp, William, 1900-1961.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Harold Shachner.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2018-03-19 09:57:07
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