Meditation on anti-Nazi love - SKETCHLINE

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1936

Meditation on anti-Nazi love

author

Wilhelm Freddie

description

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (Denmark).

Briefly about the painting:

The main part of the painting is filled with threatening clouds. In the center of it, a man of the size of a tin soldier stands on a narrow uneven strip of land. This is German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in his characteristic posture. It is he who represents Nazism. On the right side of the canvas is a young couple, depicted in a surrealistic manner. It is the symbol of love that must resist Nazism. Wilhelm Freddie uses a surrealistic idiom, in which, combined with realistic images, ominous distorted figures are reproduced. This and other anti-fascist paintings forced the artist to hide in Sweden until the end of the war.