This is a portrait of Joseph Göbbels (Goebbels). He was Adolf Hitler´s Propaganda minister during the Nazi regime in Germany. As the title of the image should already have made clear: I DO NOT LIKE THIS PERSON! I thought I´d just write that in caps, before people start calling me a nazi. This man is responsible for crimes against humanity. He was so sick, that in the end of the war, he and his wife poisoned their six children with cyanide, before comitting suicide themselves. Then why did I paint this "person", not because he is so handsome. I wanted to make a portrait of a person that intrigues me. He looks as creepy as the person he was. It is like all the evil things that he did is written in his face. I get bad feelings when I look at him for sure, but that made the painting easyer for me. Notice the dirty colors I used to put an accent on his personality.
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Anonymous Guest 23 Jun 2008
his eyes lack the usual spark your wrk has, was that delibeit? i know little of this man, and after looking at this work i dont feel any more dislike toward him, but then i am one of a lucky few it seems that can say that i dont hate anyone, this wrk makes me want to ask the question, why do u feel so passionat about this man, not just what you have writen but why him, obv hitler himself would have been more of a figure to focus your attentions ????? still i like your wrk=)Christine brand 03 Aug 2006
INCREDIBLE PORTRIAT...I FIND THESE PERSONALITES INTERESTING...I TRIED MANY YEARS TO UNDERSTAND THIS EVIL IN HUMANS, INSANITY AND CRUELTY AND HATRED...IT SEEMS TO LACK ANY RATIONAL EXPLANATION MOST OF THE TIME...IT HAS NO REASONING PERHAPS IS WHY I COULD NOT COME UP WITH ANYTHING THAT MADE CLEAR SENSE WHEN TRYING TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH OF IT ALL. I WANTED TO PAINT SOME TYPES LIKE THIS MYSELF ...JUST TO MAKE OTHERS THINK MORE ABOUT THE INNER HEART OF HUMANS. VERY INTERESTING WORK.Linda Bertiaux 10 Mar 2006
Wow..this is extraordinary!!David Meaux 10 Mar 2006
Nice capture. I think he was just bitter about his clubbed foot.thea walstra 08 Mar 2006
Yes he was a terrible person. Very good work