We'll finish the fascist beast in its own cave

à k Sándor

Erscheinungsdatum: 1945

Beschreibung

Size: A0 2 Sheet (cca. 116 x 82 cm). Sandor Ek s powerful poster reminds us of the darkest period of Hungarian history World War II In the fall of 1944 Red Army troops entered the German allied Hungary On the 5th of November they reached Budapest and following Stalin s order they started to besiege it The city was of key importance for Hitler who felt that Vienna was safe as long as the Hungarian capital was under German influence as the German ambassador s statement made it clear We don t care if Budapest falls 10 times if we can keep Vienna with that The fight lasted 51 days and numerous victims have fallen on both sides and many parts of the city have been destroyed After the fall of Pest the Germans exploded all the Danube bridges On the 13th of February the Red Army captured Buda as well and the extreme rightist Arrow Cross government fled leaving thousands of dead victims in and outside of the ghetto in Budapest Sandor Ek s anti fascist poster appeared on the streets of Budapest after the siege The population of the city experienced the sudden change shortly after the Germans resistance until the last breath propaganda the Russians began their socialist antifascist campaign The designer of the poster Sandor Ek has returned to his homeland as a fighter of the liberating Red Army His name was originally Leicht and he chose k and its German version Keil wedge as a movement name Growing up in a suburb of Pest Angyalf ld as a poor working class child he engaged in the socialist ideology from a very early age and by the time he was 16 he entered the Hungarian Communist Party KMP In 1919 the seventeen year old boy happily greeted the Hungarian Soviet Republic which existed 133 days He drew political caricatures for papers and after being a member of the Red Army for a short time he studied arts in the school of B la Uitz and J zsef Nemes Lamp rth important Hungarian painters of that age After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he immigrated to Vienna In 1921 he participated in the Young Worker s International in Moscow where he met Lenin personally and studied in VHUTEMASZ from El Lissitzky for several months During these times he was painting in a modern and constructivist style which he gave up soon for the obligatory socialist realism He has also visited Berlin and Paris and later returned to Budapest where he has been arrested After 1925 he lived in Germany and worked for the Rote Fahne Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung and for other leftist newspapers Here he made a name for himself as a designer of leftist propaganda posters similar to John Heartfield s antifascist designs Because of Hitler s rise he left for the Soviet Union in 1933 where he won a poster competition organised for the anniversary of Lenin s death In 1944 he joined the Soviet Red Army Ek was an enthusiastic photographer as well and a lot of his pictures remained in the Hungarian National Museum and other collections He has documented in several photos the horror of the war and the fascist era He took pictures about the exhumations in Budapest as the German and Hungarian extreme rightist Arrow Cross troops had Jews and other citizens who were considered enemies shortly before the Soviets captured Budapest Ek s pictures are shocking documents of these massacres After the fall of Budapest three antifascist posters of Ek covered the walls of the city They all predicted the fall of Hitler s Nazi power with their titles We finish the Beast in its own cave The Nazi Germany will fall shortly under the blows of the Allies that is what the Krim Conference decided and The fascist beast shall not escape All the three represent Hitler under the attack of the allied forces All of them are very aggressive bloody and brutal and they make clear that there will be no mercy for the Nazis These posters use two main elements raw and aggressive propaganda and humorous caricaturistic elements As the Highest Commander of the Red Army Stalin published several speeches and order. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2424

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Titel: We'll finish the fascist beast in its own ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 1945

Einband: Paper, offset lithography.