Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Valhalla
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 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
That is Alfred Rosenberg, the intellectual of the Nazi pafty [sic], most ardent of the paganists. The Nazis couldn't reconcile Christianity and Hitlerism so here is Rosenberg as a Wotan in a wold skin and a striped undershirt. The gibbets stand, the cross is broken.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Three quarter portrait of a Viking, wearing a spiked helmet with a swastika, a wolf skin, and a striped undershirt; he holds a spiked club and dagger; in background behind him, gallows with dead are in view, backed by a dark sky
Verso, lower right corner, in ink, "Alfred Rosenberg. / Wotan of the Third Reich"
People
- Sharp, William, 1900-1961.
- Rosenberg, Alfred, 1893-1946--Pictorial works.
Subjects
- Newspapers--New York (State)--New York--Political cartoons.
- Anti-Nazi movement--United States--Political cartoons.
Genre
- Object
- Art