1918 Opfertag / Walter Ditz. – 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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A window into the past: 1918 Opfertag / Walter Ditz., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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1918 Opfertag / Walter Ditz.
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Its title, *1918 Opfertag*, translates roughly as "Day of Sacrifice," and this color lithograph poster was made by the artist Walter Ditz during the last year of the First World War. The subject headings link it to German commemoration of the war dead and to the monuments and memorials that spread across the country during the 1910s. Posters like this one were used to channel public mourning and national feeling at a time when casualties were enormous and the war's outcome was still uncertain. The Library of Congress holds it through the Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, a German collection devoted to contemporary history and the press.
| 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 | 4,024 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1209_1918_Opfertag_Walter_1918 |
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