East German Poster Database

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• Solidarität hilft siegen

  Poster shows a young Vietnamese girl wearing an army helmet. The title says “Solidarität hilft siegen” (Solidarity helps prevail). Oversize.

• Mai 1 / 1976

  Poster commemorates the May Day celebration from 1976. The poster is red and white and shows a man wearing a construction workers helmet. Oversize.

• Luther 1483 ▪ 1983

  Poster is a gray and black medieval imagery of Martin Luther sitting in role of judge. Includes quotes by Thomas Müntzer and Martin Luther. Celebrates the 400th anniversary of Luther's birth.

• Vietnam-Commission of the GDR

  This poster is a photograph portrait of a young Vietnamese girl.

• 8. Mai 1945 8. Mai 1980 35 Jahre Befreiung

  This poster shows a large image in black and white of Soviet soldiers raising USSR flags over Berlin in 1945. Smaller pictures on the poster show various scenes of Soviet soldiers and cosmonauts.

• Frieden ist nicht Sein, sondern Tun!

  This poster has a sepia-tone portrait of a construction worker in a hard hat.

• Luther 1483 - 1983. Nichts, denn die Gerechtigkeit Gottes! Aufständische Bauern, 1525. Die Gerechtigkeit Gottes ist das Evangelium. Es kommt wie ein Platzregen. Martin Luter, 1524.

  This poster is purple with black text and a woodcut illustration of Jesus and two saints above a scene of devils and fire.

• Karl Marx 1883-1983

  This poster is a brown-scale depiction of Karl Marx.

• Leb und vergiss nicht: Valentin Rasputin- Landestheater Halle.

  This poster has a green background with the text in black across the top and the bottom of the poster. A black stick figure lies upside down diagonally across the poster as if falling. Two blue vertical lines are to the right of the figure and one is to its left. This poster advertises for the performance "Live and Do Not Forget" based on the novel of the same title by Valentin Rasputin.

• Alexander: Oper von Friedrich Händel- Landestheater Halle

  This poster is light brown with an off-white depiction of a bust of Alexander the Great with female busts (perhaps relatives) on either side facing toward him. The text is in the same color at bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the opera "Alexander" from Händel.

• Carl Maria von Weber/Oberon/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  Poster background is a painted red texture, partially scratched away near the top to reveal the face of a stone statue. Text in white gothic script beneath. Advertises for the opera "Oberon" by Carl Maria von Weber.

• Die nackte Schäferin

  This poster is a mixed media composition. It consists of several wooden framed portraits, hanging on a wall that is papered in fuchsia, with green stripes and orange flowers. One large frame at the top is blank, with a black question mark on white with, and a plaque with the number 28 on the bottom. There is a man standing next to it, with a gray face and black hair; he wears a green pinstripe suit. Above him is a portrait of a king in ermine, holding a scepter. Below the man is a portrait of a buxom young woman, with a gray face and full brown hair. There are two grey green blotches with a yellow rose on them that form her dress, which has a lace camisole underneath. She is against a red and pink floral pattern. On the right there is an oval portrait of a woman in mid-nineteenth century formal dress. This film is Czechoslovakian.

• Wolz

  This poster features an illustration of a man in a heavy overcoat and driving cap, looking over his shoulder. In the background is a portrait of a man and a woman, seated together. He holds a spray of flowers. The image is brown on white. This film is East German. This poster has been poorly mounted onto brown linen. The adhesive is lifting off, and the poster is wrinkling and warping.

• Wolz

  This poster features an illustration of a woman with bobbed hair. There are two men in the background. The image is brown on white. This film is East German.

• Trotz alledem!

  This poster is red with an image of an angry man wearing a hat, sweater and coat. The man is young and clean shaven. The film is about the noted German communist Karl Liebnecht. The film is German.

• Grafik, Karikatur, Plakat zum X. Parteitag der SED

  This poster has a white background and shows a sketch of a stick-figure drawn in the shape of an "X". Above the figure's hands is a red line. It is for an exhibition featuring art, cartoons, and posters for the 10th Congress of the SED at the TV Tower in Berlin (April 10 - May 3, 1981).

• Rudolf Grüttner: Plakate

  This poster shows several geometric shapes in the form of bird, with a feather attached to the end of the rectangular body. The head consists of a green circle and a pink triangle with black and white circles for the eyes. It is for an exhibition featuring art posters by Rudolf Grüttner in Cottbus (July 17 - September 19, 1982).

• Luther 1483 - 1983

  This poster has a purple background and shows a woodcut religious print of Jesus and followers along with demons at the bottom of the print. It is for an exhibition featuring art representing the preaching's of Martin Luther.

• 30 Jahre Kunsthochschule Berlin

  This poster has a silver background and has "KHB" written in geometric shapes in the bottom half of the poster, with the shapes mixed up in the top half. It is for an exhibition featuring work from the last thirty years at the College of Art in Berlin.

• Zirkus

  This poster shows a painting of numerous performers and animals in a circus. In the picture are acrobats, strongmen, clowns, elephants, jugglers, and horses. It is for an exhibition featuring circus art in Berlin.

• Berliner Atelier 1978

  This poster has a green background and a drawing of two white tigers holding up an artist's palette. It is for an exhibition featuring Berlin artists at the TV Tower in Berlin (July 26 - August 20, 1978).

• Bildende Kunst

  This poster shows a drawing of two hands holding each other. It is for an exhibition featuring artwork from East Germany and the USSR in Berlin (May 2 - June 30, 1974).

• Malerei Grafik Plastik aus der DDR

  This poster has a white background and the title is written on a slant in outlined letters. It is for an exhibition of artwork from the GDR at the Lützowplatz Hause in Berlin (February 25 - April 20, 1975).

• Monat der Museen Mai 1983

  This poster shows a grid of small rectangular squares each depicting a landscape or cityscape scene. It is for exhibitions in May, 1983 at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

• Monat der Museen Mai 1981

  This poster shows a grid of small squares each showing an engraving or etching. It is for exhibitions in May, 1981 at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.