Kriegs Unleihe/Helft den Hütern Eures Glückes
Artist
Walther Georgi
Germany, 1871 - 1924
Printer
W. Hagelberg, Berlin
Germany
Date1918
Dimensions55 3/4 x 37 in. (141.6 x 94 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.158
DescriptionThe German government instituted nine war-bond campaigns during World War I, in the spring and fall of each year and German civilians of all backgrounds subscribed to them at a higher rate than those in other warring nations. This poster is probably part of the eighth loan, offered in the spring of 1918. Walter Georgi’s rather saccharine illustration shows a disproportionately large German man enfolding his wife and infant with his left arm; in his right he carries a sword. The text is in the traditional 16th-century Fraktur typeface frequently used in subsequent centuries to signify German cultural identity. While this poster was published in Berlin, a variant with the same image was published by the Frankfurt publisher Wüsten. Georgi was well-known in his day as an illustrator for various publications as well as a painter of landscapes, portraits, and still lifes. He was involved in avant-garde artistic groups in the early decades of the 20th century, among them the Deutscher Werkbund, founded in Munich in 1907. On View
Not on view
1960
