Clay Harris  🇪🇺 😷

The style alone set off alarm bells. I'm only an interested amateur in the field. I repeat: Third Reich Art to go with their Third Reich agenda.

I held back for a couple of days after discovering this, partly not to give these fascist scum any more publicity, partly to watch to see what developed. But seeing more references pop into the TL, I had to protect my "scoop"!

Wolfgang Willrich's art is still being promoted through dodgy Nazi image-associated websites. That's probably where the people behind this "rural conservative" glove puppet found the image. It was hard to find a link to a straight-forward art history resource.

You couldn't make it up. The *other* image on that website's homepage is also Nazi-era German art. For someone devoted to "rural Britain", our man certainly has a roving eye for art, that always seems to come to rest in the same place. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Break_from_the_Harvest,_by_Georg_Gunther,_1938,_oil_on_canvas_-_Germanisches_Nationalmuseum_-_Nuremberg,_Germany_-_DSC02350.jpg …

It's not as if there's a shortage of British rural images that could have been used. But I guess this fellow is going more for the "hey, Wayne!" crowd.

Update: creepy website has unprotected itself (although I am blocked). It has published a statement about its use of Third Reich images, now replaced with stock-art wheatfields.