`Ja, was ist denn das?'
Print
About 1935-1939 (made)
About 1935-1939 (made)
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`Ja. was ist denn das?' A proof on thin paper of a caricature by Karl Arnold showing two nervous old ladies peering at an heroic nude sculpture of a male warrior in an art gallery.
Object details
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| Title | `Ja, was ist denn das?' (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Lineblock |
| Brief description | `Ja. was ist denn das?' A proof for a satirical cartoon for the magazine Simplicissimus, by Karl Arnold |
| Physical description | `Ja. was ist denn das?' A proof on thin paper of a caricature by Karl Arnold showing two nervous old ladies peering at an heroic nude sculpture of a male warrior in an art gallery. |
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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. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Fritz Arnold Karl Arnold 1883-1953. Stuttgart : Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 1974. |
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| Accession number | E.350-1993 |
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| Record created | February 8, 2001 |
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