Der Wahlsturm fegt durchs Land! Bayerisch-Weissblau gegen Russisch-Rot! Bayerische Volkspartei – Vintage Print
(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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Der Wahlsturm fegt durchs Land! Bayerisch-Weissblau gegen Russisch-Rot! Bayerische Volkspartei
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Its title sets the terms of the contest: an election storm sweeping the land, with Bavarian white-and-blue set against Russian red. The Bayerische Volkspartei, the Catholic conservative party with strong support in rural Bavaria, sponsored this 1919 lithograph in the unsettled months after the war. Munich had recently endured a short-lived revolutionary council government and its violent suppression, and the poster links socialism to Bolshevik Russia, a framing that spread widely in German politics after 1917. It is a clear example of the anti-communist campaign art of the period.
| Created / published | 1919 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 100 x 74 cm. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik. Title from item. · Bayerische Volkspartei funder/sponsor.Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Aftermath--Germany--Bavaria. Political elections--Germany--Bavaria--1910-1920. Anti-communism--Germany--Bavaria--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,015 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 189_Der_Wahlsturm_fegt_durc_1919 |
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