Karl Josef Weinmair

Karl Josef Weinmair (1906-1944), also known as Karl Weinmair, was an early twentieth century German artist. His lithographs during the period of the Weimar Republic expresses the resignation and despair of the poverty and unemployment of the time. Later cartoon style pen and ink work drawn secretly during the Nazi regime caricatures the Nazis. Weinmair was killed at the beginning of October 1944 by an airplane bombing attack.

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* [http://www.dhm.de/ENGLISH/sammlungen/grafik/1987_130.html Sheet from the secret "Skizzenbuch zum Tausendjährigen Reich" (sketchbook for the Thousand Year Reich)] at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum).
* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/weimar/industrie/wirtschaftskrise/index.html 1918-33] at the DHM, in German.