De Notenkraker, 6 juli 1907 / Achter de coulissen Possibly 1907

This political cartoon was printed on newsprint in 1907 by Albert Hahn. It shows a suited man berating a child in a sailor suit. Can you hear the shouting? I wonder what Hahn was thinking when he made this? The work looks as though he was feeling frustrated and was maybe even making a stand. The marks are quick and certain but it doesn’t look like he laboured on it too much, it's like he did it with a lot of energy. I sympathize with how immediate this image must have felt to create. I think Hahn would have been aware of the images and cartoons being made by his peers. The conversation between artists is ongoing, and Hahn is part of that dialogue too. It's clear that we're still talking about his work today, more than a century later.