Karl Josef Weinmair (1906–October 1944), also known as Karl Weinmair, was an early twentieth century
German
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artist
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. His
lithographs during the period of the
Weimar Republic express the resignation and despair of the poverty and unemployment of the time. Later
cartoon
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style
pen and ink work drawn secretly during the
Nazi regime caricatures the
Nazis
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. Weinmair was killed at the beginning of October 1944 by an airplane bombing attack.
External links
Sheet from the secret "Skizzenbuch zum Tausendjährigen Reich" (sketchbook for the Thousand Year Reich)at the
Deutsches Historisches Museum
The German Historical Museum (german: Deutsches Historisches Museum), known by the acronym DHM, is a museum in Berlin, Germany devoted to German history. It describes itself as a place of "enlightenment and understanding of the shared history o ...
(German Historical Museum).
1918-33at the DHM, in German.
20th-century German artists
1906 births
1944 deaths
German civilians killed in World War II
Deaths by airstrike during World War II
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