William Sharp aquatint of three starving children in a destroyed city
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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.
The print was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Harold Shachner.
approximately 1930-1945
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William Sharp aquatint of three starving children in a destroyed city
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Number 8 of 10. Aquatint (?). Image of 3 emaciated children standing in ruined cityscape. White label with"2" typewritten on it in upper left corner
Recto: English title at lower left corner below image in graphite."8/1" in graphite at center below image. Lower left corner of sheet"X-123" in graphite.