Geli, Wolf und Blondi

Geli, Wolf und Blondi

Ira Waldron

From the collection of Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus

About this work

You see a pencil drawing of three dogs: one with a pink collar, one with a red collar, and a third named Blondi. The dogs sit calmly, outlined in clean cross-hatching, like a snapshot of quiet loyalty. Their collars look almost too bright against the plain background. This is part of a series where the artist mimics Adolf Hitler’s own dog portraits. The drawings play with scale and detail, showing a side of Hitler often ignored. Small changes in shading make the dogs feel more alive than his usual stiff style. It’s a strange mix of control and creepiness. Look up Waldron, Ira (1957).

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