I wouldn’t classify much of the art here as “socialist realist.” There are more expressionist and constructivist influences on display in these posters. Socialist realism was only finally developed as a canon the year communism in Germany was on its way out (1932).
Can you recommend a book exploring the evolution of poster art from Expressionist through socialist realist to Dada?
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Dada arose during the war, after early expressionism had already taken hold. Some proto-“Socialist Realist” works can be identified by the mid-1920s in the realm of painting, but the heyday of Dada had already passed. Not sure what book to recommend.
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I was thinking of Hannah Höch and John Heartfield. Aren’t they considered Dada? Heartfield was going strong in Czecho until 1938.
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Certainly. Heartfield did a few of the posters featured above. By 1932, however, Heartfield would have probably considered himself more of a functionalist.
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Anyone writing about this artistic progression?
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a poster of the nationalsocialists slipped in too, after “olympiade in berlin?”
![Wählt Spartaku[s]; Vote for the Spartacists](https://i0.wp.com/thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wacc88hlt-spartakus-vote-for-the-spartacists1.jpg)
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I am a great fan of socialist realist art.
I wouldn’t classify much of the art here as “socialist realist.” There are more expressionist and constructivist influences on display in these posters. Socialist realism was only finally developed as a canon the year communism in Germany was on its way out (1932).
Can you recommend a book exploring the evolution of poster art from Expressionist through socialist realist to Dada?
Dada arose during the war, after early expressionism had already taken hold. Some proto-“Socialist Realist” works can be identified by the mid-1920s in the realm of painting, but the heyday of Dada had already passed. Not sure what book to recommend.
I was thinking of Hannah Höch and John Heartfield. Aren’t they considered Dada? Heartfield was going strong in Czecho until 1938.
Certainly. Heartfield did a few of the posters featured above. By 1932, however, Heartfield would have probably considered himself more of a functionalist.
Anyone writing about this artistic progression?
a poster of the nationalsocialists slipped in too, after “olympiade in berlin?”
It’s an anti-Nazi poster, as can be seen from the shadow of the grenadier behind the javelinist.
i meant the one after this depicting a voting ticket with the stamp put on nsdap, but i see you already removed it :D
nice collection of posters btw
The poster “Kampft mit Uns” is featured in the background in one of the scenes in the movie “Cabaret.”
nice collection! One thing, though: //thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wacc88hle-die-aktive-kpd1.jpg isn’t “interwar”, it’s post-WW2 – presumably between ’49 and ’56
a ton of these are broken image links now — any chance we can get a reupload?
sorry, nevermind. they were just taking a while to load. all look here.