Object numberM2015/011:004
DescriptionPencil drawing, possibly anti-Semitic. It is a gruesome image depicting a man with moustache, long hair and cap wearing what looks like a Hungarian dress or hussar uniform worn by a uniformed policeman. A feature of the drawing is a sword and a severed, bleeding head. The head his is recognisably ‘Jewish’ by his pronounce nose. Text under the drawing is not fully legible and can be read as: Sim Ony is kein Antisemit nicht. (!)' (ie Sim Ony is not an Antisemite, isn't he!)
The character in this picture:
Iván Simonyi, the editor of Westungarischer Grenzbote and another notorious member of the Hungarian anti-Semitic movement and supporter of Istóczy’s ideas, fighting against the overrepresentation of Jews in public life.
The drawings in the collection have been identified by the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archive in Budapest as portraits of three of the founders of the first Anti-Semitic party in Hungary, Győző Istóczy, Iván Simonyi and Géza Ónody. Their portraits were well-known from newspapers. The National Anti-Semitic Party was founded in 1883 after the blood-libel of Tiszaeszlár in 1882.
It is possible to interpret the caricatures as being not forthright anti-Semitic but as a satire against anti-Semites - cartoons making mockery of the 1880s Hungarian anti-Semitic movement. It is probable that a late 1880’s newspaper illustration or photography or even an article (denying the anti-Semitic feelings of the main propagators), motivated a Jewish (or pro-Semitic) artist to comment on the contemporary and rapidly spreading ideology. The drawing is attributed to ‘A. Krakauer’. However, no artists/illustrator/caricaturist of that name is known to the curators in the Jewish Museum in Vienna and Budapest.
According to the donor, Trish Langford-Howes, her father Henry Langford maintained that the artist was A. Krakauer.
The character in this picture:
Iván Simonyi, the editor of Westungarischer Grenzbote and another notorious member of the Hungarian anti-Semitic movement and supporter of Istóczy’s ideas, fighting against the overrepresentation of Jews in public life.
The drawings in the collection have been identified by the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archive in Budapest as portraits of three of the founders of the first Anti-Semitic party in Hungary, Győző Istóczy, Iván Simonyi and Géza Ónody. Their portraits were well-known from newspapers. The National Anti-Semitic Party was founded in 1883 after the blood-libel of Tiszaeszlár in 1882.
It is possible to interpret the caricatures as being not forthright anti-Semitic but as a satire against anti-Semites - cartoons making mockery of the 1880s Hungarian anti-Semitic movement. It is probable that a late 1880’s newspaper illustration or photography or even an article (denying the anti-Semitic feelings of the main propagators), motivated a Jewish (or pro-Semitic) artist to comment on the contemporary and rapidly spreading ideology. The drawing is attributed to ‘A. Krakauer’. However, no artists/illustrator/caricaturist of that name is known to the curators in the Jewish Museum in Vienna and Budapest.
According to the donor, Trish Langford-Howes, her father Henry Langford maintained that the artist was A. Krakauer.
Subjectracial discrimination, caricatures, antisemitism, Jews, cartoons
Object namedrawings
Dimensions
- drawing width: 211.00 mm
height: 341.00 mm
with cardboard width: 268.00 mm
height: 406.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Trish Langford-Howes