{{Short description|American artist (1880–1961)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox artist | name = August Henkel | image = Archives of American Art - August Henkel - 2151.jpg | image_size = | caption = August Henkel, from the Archives of American Art | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date text|1880}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death year and age|1961|1880}} | death_place = | known_for = Painting, murals, politician | training = | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = }} '''August Henkel''' (1880 – 1961) was an American artist.
He was a Socialist candidate for 4th District of the New York State Assembly from Queens County in 1919, and Communist candidate for the 1st District of the House of Representatives from New York in 1934.<ref>{{Cite web | title = The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Hendrickson to Henrotin | accessdate = 2011-12-27 | url = http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hendrickson-henriquez.html}}</ref>
He was a member of the Federal Art Project, and worked on a mural at Floyd Bennett Field with Eugene Chodorow. There was a controversy about Joseph Stalin appearing in the mural.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764214,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101014080056/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764214,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 14, 2010 | magazine=Time | title=Art: Stalin in a Stove | date=July 22, 1940 | accessdate=December 26, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/nyregion/thecity/09mura.html?pagewanted=3&sq&st=nyt&scp=1| title=The Other Battle of Brooklyn| date= April 9, 2006| work=The New York Times| author=Leonard Benardo| author2=Jennifer Weiss }}</ref> In 1940, he refused to sign a loyalty oath, resulting in the destruction of the mural.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041024062316/https://www.irondale.org/newsletters/SPRING98.PDF Irondale.org .pdf]</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category|August Henkel}} *[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1940/07/20/1940_07_20_009_TNY_CARDS_000181311 Comment on controversy in the ''New Yorker''], July 20, 1940 *[http://www.askart.com/AskART/H/august_henkel/august_henkel.aspx?searchtype=SUMMARY&artist=10024388 August Henkel], at Ask Art
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