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cartoon portrait A friendly caricature by David Levine in the
New York Review of Books, 14 OCT 1976.
(Prints available from NYRB. Click image for link.)

Caricature by John CoxFrom artist John Cox, 4 MAR 2011.


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Not so much a caricature of Clausewitz as an accurate transmission of the state of mind of some folks who write about him. Original source unidentified.

caricature of German military-historical figures

ABOVE: ©Artist Rainer Ehrt, "Prussian Roulette" ("Preußisches Roulette") Karikatur, Am Spieltisch mit der Landkarte Europas mit Wilhelm I, Bismarck, Friedrich II (der Grosse), Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau, Schlieffen, Clausewitz, Wilhelm II, und Hindenburg, 1999. Posted to The Clausewitz Homepage by permission of the artist. More artwork by Julia and Rainer Ehrt can be found at http://www.edition-ehrt.de/. All images in the section below are © Rainer Ehrt.

detailDetail from Rainer Ehrt, "Little Prussian Court Theater."
A thumbnail of the full cartoon is shown below.

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book coverFrom Rainer Ehrt, Preußischer Bilderbogen
(Parthas Verlag Berlin 2011), ISBN 3869640499

Caricature of Clausewitz by Edward Sorel, 1971

Above: Caricature of Clausewitz by Edward Sorel, Horizons, Summer 1971. Retrieved from https://horizonhardcover.wordpress.com/tag/karl-maria-von-clausewitz/. The implied rankings of audience members naturally reflects someone else's view (Sorel's?), not necessarily those of Clausewitz.

Portrait: Clausewitz is Cool"Clausewitz is cool."
©Clausewitz.com 2001

Clausewitz As American Comic-Book Hero
©Clausewitz.com 2023
This is an AI rendition of the Clausewitz.com color poster, produced by using Fotor's AI Photo Editor.
Click the image to see a set of such images produced with different settings.

Let's Ask a Rock Star! Clausewitz as RockStar.
©Clausewitz.com 2016

Danish caricature of Clausewitz Danish image of Clausewitz, from Høiback, Harald. En kort introduksjon til Carl von Clausewitz—Krigens filosof. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2021. ISBN: 9788202712266. See review by Jens Ringsmose.

Clausewitz as depicted in a Japanese book of cartoons

From a book, To Understand Clausewitz's 'On War' with Cartoons, mentioned by Takeshi Oki without a citation, presumably 漫画クラウゼヴィッツと戦争論 (日本語) 単行本(ソフトカバー).

Hare von Clausewitz

"Hare von Clausewitz"
Caitlin Fitz Gerald, The Children's Illustrated Clausewitz, Volume I
(London/Perth/Nairobi/Oaxaca: Helios House Press, 2021). ISBN: 978-1-911683-00-1

See also Spencer Ackerman, "The Bible of Western War,
Now Featuring Cartoon Animals
." Wired, 18 July 2011.
Military History Quarterly review.

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