Karl Weinmair
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Karl Josef Weinmair (1906–October 1944), also known as Karl Weinmair, was an early twentieth century
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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
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style pen and ink work drawn secretly during the Nazi regime caricatures the
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. Weinmair was killed at the beginning of October 1944 by an airplane bombing attack.


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Sheet from the secret "Skizzenbuch zum Tausendjährigen Reich" (sketchbook for the Thousand Year Reich)
at the
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(German Historical Museum).
1918-33
at 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 {{Germany-artist-stub