When Walt Disney hired a Luftwaffe veteran … to design mosaics

If you had the chance to go ᲓSney WorldLocated in Walt Disney, Florida, an amusement park located in Orlando, you were really able to discover these huge mosaic frescoes while covering Cinderella Castle that cover the inner walls by almost five meters and tell the story of a princess. You have very little Review the article with visual illustration.

This mosaic is the work of world-renowned artist Hans-Joachim Gottlob Scharf, whose name is probably only spoken by very few of you. A strange and fascinating fortune was born in 1907 in Rastenburg, Prussia, to a wealthy family.

His maternal grandfather was the founder and owner of a large, well-known textile company. After studying art and training for a day job in the family business, Scharf moved to South Africa, where he got married and headed a local branch of the family business.

Shortly before World War II, he was vacationing in Germany with his wife in 1939. In 1941, Scharf was to be sent to the Russian front. His wife, who wants to save him, successfully tries to persuade the authorities to leave her husband as a translator because she speaks English fluently. His superiors send him to Oberursel, where the Luftwaffe interrogation center is located, where American pilots captured by the Germans were interrogated.

Here is Hans-Joachim Gottlob Scharf, in uniform:

This is where he’s established his reputation as a “master of interrogation.” Indeed, unlike the practice of interrogation, where torture was most often used to obtain information, Scharf sought to gain the confidence of prisoners, not by torturing or threatening them, but by always using almost infallible psychological techniques. Scharf became the most famous investigator in the German army.

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Scharf eventually acquired American citizenship and successfully became an artist specializing in pottery and mosaics. In 1955, he acquired the prestigious New York luxury store Neiman Marcus to decorate the interior with his mosaic works. In 1956 he set up his studio in Los Angeles. The fusion of glass, stone and marble inspires the scarf with popular Mesopotamian art and techniques dating back thousands of years.

Despite his creations ranging from tables to murals, he refused to call himself an artist: “I am a copywriter and not a creative artist. This is my art. Copy, not creation” He said one day Los Angeles Times.

Copywriter? ᲨIt is possible. But whose works can be seen at the Los Angeles City Hall, the California Capitol Building, the Epcot Center, and Disneyworld, not to mention the various official buildings across the country, such as schools, universities, private homes, hotels, malls, and so on. … in four corners of the world.

Not bad for those who modestly did not see themselves as an artist, with an unusual fortune. Died in September 1992, aged 84 years.