Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper The Press
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 19.020 inches (48.311 cm) | Width: 13.270 inches (33.706 cm)
Creator(s)
- William Sharp (Artist)
Biographical History
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.
Archival History
The drawing was aquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Scope and Content
This man is a newspaper publisher and what a newspaper DER STUERMER is! Obscene, ranting, Streicher, one of Hitler's earliest supporters, is Nazi commissioner for Franconia, and is violently antisemitic.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Half length, right profile image; slobbering bald man wearing sandwich sign that appears to be the top half of the newspaper Der Steurmer, with the words "Herausgeber: Julius Streicher" underneath heading.
On signboard "HERAUSGEBER: Julius Streicher"
People
- Sharp, William, 1900-1961.
Subjects
- Anti-Nazi movement--United States--Political cartoons.
- Newspapers--New York (State)--New York--Political cartoons.
Genre
- Art
- Object