Il Travaille du pinceau [He works with a brush]
- Title:
- Il Travaille du pinceau [He works with a brush]
- Alternate Title:
- [He works with a brush]
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Charly
- Other Creators:
- Akermans (Hippolute Ackermans), composer; Georgius (Georges Auguste Charles Guilbourg), lyricist and singer; Paul Beuscher, publisher
- Date:
- 1939
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2521.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2521_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Advertising & Promotion
Pictorial
Satirical
World War II - Measurement:
- 27 x 18 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This is sheet music for a French song, written and performed to substantial success in 1938, mocking a pre-World War II Adolf Hitler as a failed painter. The sheet music was not published until 1939, apparently after September 1, as the cover illustration (ID #2521.01) shows Hitler sloppily coloring the map of Europe to reflect the Austrian Anschluss, the takeover of the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland, and the invasion of Poland. The song (ID #2521.02) is broadly and unmistakably comic, giving rise to the question of whether it - and the portrait of a feckless Hitler - were appropriate if published following the invasion of Poland.
The music was written by a well-known Belgian composer, Hippolyte Ackermans (who wrote under the name Akermans). The lyrics were composed and the song was widely performed by Georgius (Georges Auguste Charles Guilbourg), a popular comic singer-songwriter and music hall performer in the 1930s. Both Akermans and Georgius continued to work during the German Occupation, and as a result, both of their careers were diminished following the war, notwithstanding their role in creating this parody.
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.