Catalog No.: 49
Kurt Poltiniak
An American wedding
January 1953; colored pen-and-ink drawing
h 18, w 68.2.
Inv. no.: Gr 91/116
Bride and groom Adenauer (CDU) and Ollenhauer (SPD) walk along the path together towards US capital to receive the blessing of capitalism. Representatives of the Nazi state act as marriage witnesses. The dowry, a sack full of US dollars, is provided by the Ku-Klux-Klan. In the background the figures of Hitler and Goebbels, rigid in death, together with the West German police force, founded in 1951, show their pleasure at this union.
