Drawing by William Sharp

Object | Accession Number: 1995.132.71

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

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Physical Description: Image of a Nazi officer, apparently Goering, looking pleased as an emaciated child hangs from a noose at his right. Around the child's neck hangs a placard reading "IM NAMEN DES FUEHRERS.....HEIL HITLER". Red and black ink.
Dimensions: overall : 25.000 x 19.000 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm.)
Materials: overall : paper, charcoal, ink, graphite, tempera
Markings: Recto: Water mark along left edge, in upper and lower corners. Upper corner reads, "MICHALLET / FRANCE "; lower corner reads "UFPC" with three small flowers behind it. Verso: upper left corner, in graphite, "212"
Signature: upper right corner of image, in ink, "Sharp"
Inscription: lower edge, recto, left of center, ` "In the Name of the Fuehrer" '
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
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