Alfred Schmidt (artist)

Alfred Schmidt

Alfred Michael Roedsted Schmidt (3 May 1858 – 4 April 1938) was a Danish illustrator, caricaturist and painter.

He was best known for his satirical drawings of politicians, including a recurring joke about Prime Minister J.C. Christensen being accompanied by a fox as illustration of this politician's cunning. He was main editor and contributor to the satirical magazine Klods-Hans (1899-1926).

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  Illustration by Alfred Schmidt(1900) for a book of by Christian Winther, Flugten til Amerika (The runaway to America)
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  Illustration in Flugten til Amerika
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  Illustration in Flugten til Amerika
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  Illustration of an opera singer
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  Illustration to a The Stork in the Corn, a Molbo story
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  Caricature of a fortified Saltholm, an island close to the Danish-Swedish border
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  Caricature of the 1917 Sale of the Danish West Indian Islands to the US. Woodrow Wilson portrayed as Uncle Sam.
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  Caricature of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars with four European nations fighting the Ottoman Empire.

References

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