Hans Schweitzer
Illustration — Joseph Goebbels and Hans Schweitzer at the opening of the Olympic art exhibition in 1936. Hans Herbert Schweitzer (25 July 1901 – 15 September 1980), known as Mjölnir, or Mjoelnir was an artist who produced many posters for the Nazi Party (NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. In Teutonic mythology, Mjölnir is the name of Thor's hammer.
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Hans Schweitzer
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- Born
- 1901 · Berlin.
- Died
- 1980 · Landstuhl.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- illustrator · graphic designer · draftsperson · graphic artist · caricaturist
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Joseph Goebbels and Hans Schweitzer at the opening of the Olympic art exhibition in 1936. Hans Herbert Schweitzer (25 July 1901 – 15 September 1980), known as Mjölnir, or Mjoelnir was an artist who produced many posters for the Nazi Party (NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. In Teutonic mythology, Mjölnir is the name of Thor's hammer.
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He was recruited to produce Nazi propaganda posters by Joseph Goebbels. The posters depicted crude but memorable caricatures of the NSDAP's opponents. A recurring image was of a Sturmabteilung (SA) member side by side with a Heer soldier. Schweitzer was named a professor in 1937, and was named "Reich Commissioner for Artistic Design" and chairman of the Reich Committee of Press Illustrators. He was a member of Adolf Ziegler’s five-man committee, which in early July 1937 selected approximately 1,100 artworks from 30 museums to be sent to Munich for the "Degenerate Art" exhibition. After the war, Schweitzer remained in the western occupation zone. In the course of denazification, Schweitzer was fined 500 Deutschemarks in Hamburg-Bergedorf. He was boycotted as "Goebbels' illustrator", but nonetheless found work designing posters for West German federal press and information office and as an illustrator in the far-right press. In East Germany, some of his earlier work was discarded from library collections.
The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Work by Hans Schweitzer is recorded in the collections of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Wrocław's arms under the Third Reich 1938-1945 designed by Hans Schweitzer
Hans Schweitzer for city Breslau · Project by Hanz Schweitzer-Mjölnir
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1901
Hans Schweitzer born at Berlin.
1980
Hans Schweitzer died at Landstuhl.
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- 1."Nazi Posters: 1933-1945" German Propaganda Archive, Calvin University. Retrieved February 11, 2012
- 2.Ernst Klee, Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945, Frankfurt am Main (2007), p. 560
- 3.Kazmaz, Zeynep: Entartete Kunst: The War against Modern Art in the Third Reich, Honors Capstone Project 2017. Pp. 27, 28, 35.
- 4.Confiscation. www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de. 2009-11-26.
- 5.'Entartete Kunst': The Nazis' inventory of 'degenerate art' · V&A. Victoria and Albert Museum.
- 6.Deutsche Verwaltung für Volksbildung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone, Liste der auszusondernden Literatur 1948 Datenbank Schrift und Bild 1900-1960. Zweiter Nachtrag, Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948. Retrieved February 11, 2012
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