With all due respect I think you are wrong in this. The photo was taken in Germany and Rockwell would not have necessarily had access to it. There was no internet for photos to instantly cross 5000 miles. I do not believe it was published in the States at all and as far as I can find at a glance it was not published anywhere until the 90s. Even if it was published, it would have to be very famous for Rockwell to surely have seen it, and its fame is very much a post-war thing.
Plus the photo and painting do not really depict analogous things, to me the similarities seem very surface-level. I'd be willing to hear you out if you had more evidence for what you are saying but two things being vaguely similar (which these barely are) does not do it analytically
With all due respect I think you are wrong in this. The photo was taken in Germany and Rockwell would not have necessarily had access to it. There was no internet for photos to instantly cross 5000 miles. I do not believe it was published in the States at all and as far as I can find at a glance it was not published anywhere until the 90s. Even if it was published, it would have to be very famous for Rockwell to surely have seen it, and its fame is very much a post-war thing.
Plus the photo and painting do not really depict analogous things, to me the similarities seem very surface-level. I'd be willing to hear you out if you had more evidence for what you are saying but two things being vaguely similar (which these barely are) does not do it analytically