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War Posters

  • Saville Lumley

    Saville Lumley
    The direct appeal to sentimentality and patriotism is illustrated in this family scene.
  • Lucian Bernhard.

    Lucian Bernhard.
    A sharp militaristic feeling is amplified by the Gothic inscription
  • Hans Rudi Erdt

    Hans Rudi Erdt
    A powerful structural joining of type and image proclaimed, “U-Boats Out!”
  • Julius Klinger

    Julius Klinger
    Eight arrows piercing a dragon remind citizens that their gifts have helped wound the enemy.
  • Julius Gipkens

    Julius Gipkens
    poster for an exhibition of captured airplanes. A symbolic German eagle sits triumphantly upon the indicia of a captured allied aircraft.
  • Lucian Bernhard

    Lucian Bernhard
    The women's liberation movement had already been active in Germany, but the war increased its momentum. This poster announced the first elections in Germany open to women.