Image of Franz vonPapen, the foreign minister of Germany in a riding habit, crop in left hand, papers in his right hand. Recto: top edge, right of center, in graphite,"Franz v. Pape"
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The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Harold Shachner.
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.
overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.120 inches (38.405 cm)
Drawing by William Sharp