"Peace Marx" artist?

[anticap]

Does anyone know the name of the artist who did the "Peace Marx" (as I call it) drawing/painting?

You know the one, it's clearly based on one of the most iconic images of Marx (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Karl_Marx_001.jpg), but slightly caricatured, and with his hand making a "peace" or "victory" sign. It can be found at numerous domains, as shown by this Google image search (http://images.google.com/images?q=marx+peace), but I haven't been able to determine the original source or the artist's name.

Thanks in advance.

[anticap]

Got it, finally. Here are the details if anyone's interested:

I did a TinEye search (http://www.tineye.com/search/9525768f3049b141871ae7b48e88ca7525087100/?sort=score&order=asc) of the image, which revealed a Der Spiegel cover (http://talks.blogs.com/phototalk/images/karlmarx.jpg) that looked legit. So I went there (https://www.spiegel.de/) and managed to navigate it, somehow (I can't read German), and eventually found the illustration being sold in their shop: a limited edition lithograph for 199 Euros (https://shop.spiegel.de/shop/action/productDetails/4919279/braldt_bralds_karl_marx.html?aUrl=90009999), and a regular poster for 14 Euros (https://shop.spiegel.de/shop/action/productDetails/4910552/braldt_bralds_karl_marx.html?aUrl=90009999). And there you see the artist's name: Braldt Bralds.

Strangely, his site (http://braldtbraldsstudio.com/) doesn't show that version, but a different one (http://braldtbraldsstudio.com/illustrations/marx.html). (His Einstein and Che, shown on the poster page, are the same as on his illustrations page (http://braldtbraldsstudio.com/illustrations.html), so I'm not sure what's up with the Marx.) Anyway, if you zoom in on his signature (http://media2.libri.de/shop/coverscans/491/4910552_null_xl.jpg) (lower right, on the image itself), it's clearly the same as on his other pieces.

[Marxist]

Marx was quite a militant guy , that drawing is slightly oxymoronic...

[tbasherizer]

Come now, militant doesn't only mean violent. It also means that a person is confrontational, which Marx certainly was. I can understand Marx making the peace sign, because after all, communism is about peace.

[Mac2468]

Honestly I think the one on his website just looks like a mediocre photo edit.

[anticap]

Honestly I think the one on his website just looks like a mediocre photo edit.

It appears to me to be a mock-up. It obviously wasn't used as the magazine cover. Perhaps he can't display the final product for legal reasons. :confused: