Zeichnet achte Kriegsanleihel!
Artist
Emil Ranzenhofer
Viennese , 1864 - 1930
Printer
K. uK. Hoflieferant J. Weiner, Wien
Austria
Date1918
Dimensions37 x 24 1/2 in. (94 x 62.2 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.149
DescriptionThis poster urges Austrians to subscribe to the eighth war loan issued by the government in the final year of World War I, in a desperate attempt to secure war funding in the face of imminent defeat. This final loan ultimately yielded only a quarter of the first loan in 1913 values from a war-weary public. Ranzenhofer’s image showing Austrian generals surveying the war-torn landscape below them as one points to the bright promise suggested by a golden sky reflects the simple, flat forms of the modern Vienna Secession movement, although the illustration is accompanied by traditional Fraktur lettering. The Vienna-born Jewish artist had been classically trained as a painter but became best known as a poster designer who was among the first to introduce the French Art Nouveau style into Austrian graphic design. During World War I, he created prints of Jewish refugees as well as propaganda posters and other material for the War Press Office of the Austrian Army.On View
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