Ja, was ist denn das?
Drawing
about 1935-1939 (made)
about 1935-1939 (made)
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Pen and ink and wash caricature drawing of two nervous old ladies peering at an heroic nude sculpture of a male warrior in an art gallery, with a typewritten caption.
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| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and chinese white and watercolour on stiff paper |
| Brief description | Drawing for a satirical cartoon for the magazine Simplicissimus, `Ja was ist denn das..' by Karl Arnold. |
| Physical description | Pen and ink and wash caricature drawing of two nervous old ladies peering at an heroic nude sculpture of a male warrior in an art gallery, with a typewritten caption. |
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| Historical context | Simplicissimus was a satirical magazine founded in Munich in 1896. It published cartoons, which satirised, amongst other things, the boorishness of the Prussian Military caste. From the late 1920s until the mid 1930s it attacked the members of the Nazi party, but after that it had to confine itself to less dangerous topics until it ceased publication in 1944. One of the more innocuous subjects was the Nazi preference for vast and banal neo-classical nude sculpture. |
| Bibliographic reference | Fritz Arnold Karl Arnold 1883-1953. Stuttgart : Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 1974. |
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| Accession number | E.345-1993 |
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| Record created | February 1, 2001 |
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