Overview
- Date
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creation:
1932
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Harold Shachner
- Markings
- Verso: impressed stamp, readable from upper right corner down along right edge, "SPITTA & LEUTZ BERLIN S.W"; right edge center, in blue pencil, "J. Cherri (?) und auf----[illeg.]; bottom right quadrant, "17.9,3" in blue pencil, then "(3" also in blue pencil--then "67.38--scratched out" "B" in blue pencil; below these marks, purple publisher's stamp reading "Volk un Zeit, Berlin/ No.; "46 -in blue pencil" Seite; "6 -in blue pencil"/ Hohe; "9,3-in blue pencil" "(3-in blue pencil"/ Breite; "17 -in blue pencil" "Run (underlined) -----[illeg.]"
- Signature
- Signed and dated lower left corner
- Contributor
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Artist:
William Sharp
- Biography
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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
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Art
- Category
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Drawings
- Object Type
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Drawing (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Image of a group of people standing in a cafeteria by the counter with a table in the foreground. Signs read "Buttermilch" and "Salat", "Berliner/frauenver-/ein gegen/alkoho-/lismus." Verso: white adhesive tag with "14" typewritten on it in upper left corner.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 14.380 inches (36.525 cm) | Width: 20.120 inches (51.105 cm)
- Materials
- overall : charcoal, ink, graphite, paper
- Inscription
- Recto: in graphite, "Ger. Keri-um [sp?]" (??).
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Sharp, William, 1900-1961.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Harold Shachner.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:22:41
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn9573
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