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JOSEPH OTTO FLATTER (1894-1988) - JEWISH - ANTI-NATZI - PROPAGANDIST WAR ARTIST

 
Joseph Otto Flatter (1894-1988).  You can hear him interviewed in the Imperial War Museum Archives.  See Google.  There are also photos of the artist and examples of his work.

One of five works I hold.  Worked for the Ministry of War.  These are his propoganda works.  All of the works I hold came from the Rowley Galleries, Kensington Church Street.

Overall artwork dimensions 20" x 14".  105% moneyback if not delighted.

JOSEPH OTTO FLATTER (1894-1988)
Apologies for poor translation

Background in Vienna, Austria, 1894-1914: family; education. Aspects of period as private and officer with Austro-Hungarian Army in South Tyrol, Italy, 1914-1918: demoralising effect of trench warfare; amusing story of diverting troops from boredom; narrow escape from shell explosion; end of war and plight of Austrian people. Aspects of period as refugee in GB, 1934-1939: decision to emigrate to GB; impressions of London; his cartoon work and its reception. Aspects of period of internment on Isle of Man, 1940: arrest; internment on Isle of Man; removal of Nazi sympathisers; release. Aspects of period as cartoonist for Ministry of Information in London, GB, 1940-1945: design of propaganda leaflets; work for Belgian Government in Exile. REEL 2 Continues: work for Free French paper; membership of Home Guard; Russian officer who had seen some of his cartoons published; public reaction to his Mein Kampf cartoons; amusing story of other cartoonists; reasons for wanting to attend Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal; aims in drawing anti-Nazi cartoons.

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