Spare Seife! ... aber wie? ... / Bernhard. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Spare Seife! ... aber wie? ... / Bernhard.
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*Spare Seife! ... aber wie?* ("Save soap! ... but how?") asks its German viewers to conserve soap, and its title reads like a question the poster only partly answers. Dated 1915, it reflects the home-front economy of wartime Germany, when the British naval blockade cut imports and fats needed for soap were diverted to food and to glycerin for explosives. The color lithograph was printed by Emil Saatz's firm in Berlin-Schöneberg and credited to the artist Bernhard. It comes from the Rehse Archive, a collection of posters documenting twentieth-century German political and social history.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 71 x 47 cm. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik. Title from item. Printed by Kunstanstalt Emil Saatz GmbH Berlin-Schoumlneberg. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--Germany. World War 1914-1918--Social aspects--Germany--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,009 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1660_Spare_Seife_aber_wie_1915 |
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