Adolf Hitler posing with Alsatian
Photograph
1932 (photographed)
1932 (photographed)
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This photograph featured in the 1932 publication Hitler wie ihn keiner Kennt (‘Hitler as nobody knows him’) – a collaboration between Hitler and Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler’s first official photographer. Over 400,000 copies sold to the German public, demonstrating a national thirst for propagandistic images of the Führer.
Hitler wie ihn keiner Kennt was part of a series designed to show Hitler’s approachable, charismatic edge. As well as being printed as part of Hoffmann’s photographic compilations, photographs were also reproduced in pocket books, on cigarette cards, picture postcards and in the press, reaching a yet wider public. This image of Hitler with his dog, promoting the countryside and dog lover at rest, was reproduced with the startling caption (paraphrased) ‘When evil people wanted to hurt him [Hitler] inside, at his most vulnerable, they poisoned his favourite dog. This is how evil fights against a good man’.
Hitler wie ihn keiner Kennt was part of a series designed to show Hitler’s approachable, charismatic edge. As well as being printed as part of Hoffmann’s photographic compilations, photographs were also reproduced in pocket books, on cigarette cards, picture postcards and in the press, reaching a yet wider public. This image of Hitler with his dog, promoting the countryside and dog lover at rest, was reproduced with the startling caption (paraphrased) ‘When evil people wanted to hurt him [Hitler] inside, at his most vulnerable, they poisoned his favourite dog. This is how evil fights against a good man’.
Object details
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| Title | Adolf Hitler posing with Alsatian (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | 20thC, Hoffmann, Heinrich, Photograph of Adolf Hitler with Alsatian, Gelatin-silver print ca.1932 |
| Physical description | Black and white photograph of Adolf Hitler lying down behind his alsatian in an alpine setting. |
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| Summary | This photograph featured in the 1932 publication Hitler wie ihn keiner Kennt (‘Hitler as nobody knows him’) – a collaboration between Hitler and Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler’s first official photographer. Over 400,000 copies sold to the German public, demonstrating a national thirst for propagandistic images of the Führer. Hitler wie ihn keiner Kennt was part of a series designed to show Hitler’s approachable, charismatic edge. As well as being printed as part of Hoffmann’s photographic compilations, photographs were also reproduced in pocket books, on cigarette cards, picture postcards and in the press, reaching a yet wider public. This image of Hitler with his dog, promoting the countryside and dog lover at rest, was reproduced with the startling caption (paraphrased) ‘When evil people wanted to hurt him [Hitler] inside, at his most vulnerable, they poisoned his favourite dog. This is how evil fights against a good man’. |
| Bibliographic reference | Rudolf Herz, Hoffmann & Hitler: Fotografie als Medium des Führer-Mythos (Munich: Münchner Stadtmuseum 1994)
Robin Muir, The World's Most Photographed (London: National Portrait Gallery 2005)
Kate Best and Sophie Leighton 'Interwar photography at the V&A: modernism and more' Apollo May 2006 |
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| Accession number | 16777-1936 |
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| Record created | August 10, 2006 |
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