Karl Josef Weinmair also known as Karl Weinmair, was an early twentieth century German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

. His lithographs during the period of the Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

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 expresses the resignation and despair of the poverty and unemployment of the time. Later cartoon

Cartoon

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 style pen and ink work drawn secretly during the Nazi regime

Nazi Germany

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 caricatures the Nazis. 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
  Deutsches Historisches Museum
  The German Historical Museum , DHM for short, is a museum in Berlin devoted to German history and defines itself as a place of enlightenment and understanding of the shared history of Germans and Europeans....
  
  (German Historical Museum).
• 1918-33 at the DHM, in German.