Drawing by William Sharp

Object | Accession Number: 1995.132.9

Date: 1932 (creation)
Language: 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 two men with placards reading "WAHLT" around their necks standing facing an upper class couple walking toward them. Published in "Welt und Spiel".
Dimensions: overall : 10.000 x 11.750 in. (25.4 x 29.845 cm.)
Materials: overall : paper, charcoal, ink, graphite, tempera
Markings: Verso, in graphite: "105" in upper right corner; center of sheet "970"; bottom quarter of sheet is a horizontal line going from left to right edges with arrows on ends; beneath line left of center, is an illegible marking; center bottom edge, "W. Sp. 9.75"; to right of W. Sp. mark, "16 cm [illegible]; bottom right corner, either "N" or "Z".
Signature: Signed and dated, in ink, lower left corner of image/sheet
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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