1918 Opfertag / Walter Ditz. – Vintage Poster
(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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This rare vintage poster captures 1918 Opfertag / Walter Ditz. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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1918 Opfertag / Walter Ditz.
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Walter Ditz's 1918 color lithograph is titled "Opfertag," or "Day of Sacrifice," and its record places it within German commemoration of the First World War, a theme that grew heavier as the conflict entered its final year. Posters of this kind were meant to steady the home front by asking viewers to honor the dead and to treat their losses as a shared national duty. The catalog also files the work under monuments and memorials, suggesting that its imagery drew on the civic memorial culture taking shape in German towns at the time. At 55 by 40 centimeters, it was built for display on public walls.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 55 x 40 cm. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik. Title from item. · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Commemoration--Germany. Monuments & memorials--Germany--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 718 × 892 px |
| Reference | 865_1918_Opfertag_Walter_1918.tif-S |
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