Friede Arbeit Brot! / Wera v. Bartels. – Vintage Print
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Friede Arbeit Brot! / Wera v. Bartels.
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The 1919 color lithograph titled "Friede, Arbeit, Brot" by Wera von Bartels asks for three things postwar Germany lacked: peace, work and bread. It appeared in the months after the armistice of November 1918, when the Allied blockade still restricted food imports and demobilized soldiers returned to a shrinking job market, so the slogan spoke directly to a population worn down by four years of war. Handwritten notes on the reverse show that the poster passed through a private collection in Leipzig in May 1919 before entering the Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, which preserved it as a record of wartime and postwar propaganda.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 78 x 57 cm. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik. Hand-written on verso: aus Sammlung A. Wolf Leipzig 26 Mai 1919 Bahnhof Kirchenlaibach. Pencilled on lower right corner verso the artists name: Vera v. Bartels 26.5.1919 in Rehses hand on front lower margin. Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Germany. Soldiers--German--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,018 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1376_Friede_Arbeit_Brot_We_1919 |
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