Andreas Paul Weber
Andreas Paul Weber (1893–1980) was a German lithographer and painter. Early life. Weber grew up in Arnstadt, where his father was a rail assistant. Encouraged by his mother and grandfather, he briefly attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Erfurt (School for decorative and applied arts) before joining the Jungwandervogel, a movement of Germans who wanted to start a new lifestyle closer to nature, in 1908. Weber served in the Jungwandervogel until 1914, when he was drafted in World War I. He was conscripted to fight on the Eastern Front, before working as a caricaturist for an army magazine. He began  to come into his own when it came to art and lithography, as he had his work published in such journals as the "Magazine for National Revolutionary Politics." Later life. In 1920, Weber married Toni Klander, with whom he had five children. He and his son Christian started a design press in 1925, where they produced logos, bookplates and advertising graphics. Work. Weber left behind an extensive graphic and lithographic body of work. Among other things, he dealt with the topics of Nazism, politics, the environment and medicine. He also designed commercial graphics and a number of book illustrations. Other  series of images are "The Chess Players", portrait caricatures, satirical / allegorical representations of animals and drawings for the magazine "Resistance" published by Ernst Niekisch. "Journal of National Revolutionary Politics"; the best known is probably the lithograph "Das Gerücht" ("The Rumor"). The series "British Pictures" (1941) and "Leviathan, was" later criticized as war propaganda. Ideological background. Weber was openly antisemitic, and worked in illustration for many antisemitic publications. He also became a member of a National Bolshevist group when Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany. As a result, he was imprisoned by the Nazi Party in 1937 and sent to  Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp.