As the title of this post indicates, today we are dealing with a rather heavy genre topic.
Physical Description:
[THE HOLOCAUST] TOEGEL STANISLAW - HITLERIADA MACABRA.
Celle-Hamburg 1946. Print by A. Markiewicz. folio, pp. [4], boards 9 [of 10].
9 boards with colorful caricatures and a cover board; forms. 33x24.5 cm mounted on cards. backings 43.5x31.5 cm.
The drawings were made in 1945. The terrifying compositions depict Nazi crimes in occupied Poland.
GOOD CONDITION / only one board on the original backing, other secondary cardboard boxes, portfolio in a residual condition, graphics in very good condition
Stanislaw Toegel (1905–1953) –
lawyer, soldier of the Home Army. A carefree citizen of Lviv, who published caricatures and satirical drawings in the pre-war press, during the war he decided to use his talent to fight the enemy, working for the underground press. The series of drawings he created: "Hitleriada Macabra", "Hitleriada Furiosa", "Polish Soldier in Exile" and "Olimp of to Day" were published in the form of albums, portfolios in the second half of the 1940s at Antoni Markiewicz's publishing house in Celle near Hanover .
"The artist did not lose his sharpness of view and irony even where - as in the case of drawings from the series "Hitleriada Macabra", depicting German atrocities in Poland - a less intelligent artist would immediately fall into pathos. A good example here is the scene of beating a prisoner with batons during an interrogation Gestapo bearing the slogan "Kraft durch Freude" (German: strength through joy), which was supposed to encourage the citizens of the Third Reich to practice sports and tourism. "Hitleriada Furiosa" is a series that could be described as a collective portrait of the madness of the National Socialist ideology. there is, for example, Hitler hovering as an "angel of peace" with a palm in his hand over a globe encased in barbed wire, or "Germania Furiosa" personified as an extremely corpulent woman with attributes in the form of a bloody sword, helmet and ... a ballet skirt." Source: "Stanisław Toegel. Caricatures of war and politics", Silesiaultura.pl
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