East German Poster Database

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• Rechtsanmalt/Linksanwalt

  Poster is black and white portrait of Karl Liebknecht with blue, red, and purple color "spray painted" around the sides. Title in purple at top and red at bottom reads "Lawyer/Leftist Lawyer" (play on words -rechts lit. "right", rechtsanwalt lit. "lawyer", linksanwalt "left lawyer").

• Rechtsanmalt/Linksanwalt

  Poster is black and white portrait of Karl Liebknecht with blue, red, and purple color "spray painted" around the sides. Title in purple at top and red at bottom reads "Lawyer/Lawyer" (play on words -rechts lit. "right", rechtsanwalt lit. "lawyer", linksanwalt "left lawyer").

• XI. Kinder- Und Jugendspartakiade der DDR

  Poster shows two young girls in some kind of athletic uniform (probably either gymnastics or ice skating) holding medallions. The poster advertises for the 11th Kinder- Und Judgendspartakiade der DDR, a “Children and Youth” sports competition.

• 4. Jazztag Leipzig

  A saxaphone in the shape of the number four that seems to come out of a background of yellow and blue stars. The poster promotes a jazz event that occurred on May 10-13, 1979.

• Leipzig '87 Eröffnungsveranstaltung

  Three birds of different sizes fly among spotlights. The poster promotes the opening ceremony of VII. Sportsfest XI. Spartakiade that occurred on July 27, 1987.

• Leipzig '87

  A bird in the upper left section of the poster flies in a light beam and overlaps with a circle that lists the events and the specific days they occur on. The poster promotes VII. Sportsfest XI. Spartakiade in Leipzig that occurred July 27-Agust 2, 1987.

• Leipzig '87 VIII. Turn- und Sportfest der DDR

  A gymnast in a red outfit holds a yellow curtain behind her. The poster is an advertisement for the major DDR sports event.

• Internationale wettkämpfe

  A gymnast twirls a ribbon in front of a crowd. The events took place in multiple locations in July-August 1987.

• Spartakiade wettkämpfe in den sommer sportarten

  A group of runners on an outdoor track with lines straight and diagonally across them. There are also rectangles that outline the number signs on their chests. The events took place in multiple location in July-August, 1987.

• Volks sportliche wettkämpfe

  A photograph of an outdoor volleyball game. The photograph is framed by a thick, curved white line. The poster is an advertisement for outdoor sporting events that took place in July-August 1987.

• André Verlon: Collagen und Montage-Painting

  This poster has a red background and shows a collage of black-and-white images featuring soldiers, graffiti, and weapons. It is for an exhibition featuring collages and montage paintings by André Verlon at the Museum of Fine Art in Leipzig (August 30 - October 19, 1986).

• Tiere der Wildnis

  This poster has a tan background and shows a painting of a leopard extracted from a smaller print of the same painting. It is for an exhibition featuring paintings and art featuring "Animals in the Wild" at the Museum of Fine Art in Leipzig (August 26 - O

• Das Britische Plakat

  This poster shows an image of a city street with a wall of advertisement posters. The poster are British in nature. The border around the poster is the British flag. It is for an exhibition featuring British posters in Cottbus (August 22 - October 18, 1981).

• Frank Neubauer - Leipzig / Peter Schnürpel - Altenburg

  This poster shows an illustration of a blue silhouette of a man with a red striped necktie and sunglasses. He is standing next to collages of lettering and numbers in different fonts. Below him is a black silhouette of a painter working on a black canvas. It is for an exhibition featuring work by Frank Neubauer and Peter Schnürpel at the Neustrelitz Museum (February 7 - 26, 1978).

• Soldaten des Volkes - Dem Frieden Verpflichtet

  This poster shows a blue geometric grid featuring white curved lines with red points and graphed lines. It is for an exhibition titled "Soldiers of the People - Committed to Peace" in Cottbus (February 22 - March 30, 1986).

• Silber und Elfenbein: Grünes Gewölbe Dresden

  This poster has a green background and shows two miniature figurines, an ivory sculpture of a nude female and a gold griffon. It is for an exhibition titled "Silver and Ivory" in Dresden.

• Max Bill / Schweiz

  This poster shows a graphic design featuring red, black, and white geometric shapes that resemble the Switzerland flag. It is for an exhibition featuring work by Swiss artist Max Bill at the Museum of Fine Art in Leipzig (August 27 - October 16, 1988).

• Ulrike und Thomas Oelzner: Glasplastik

  This poster has a dot-matrix background and shows an image of a piece of glass melting into two globes. The black text behind the two glass globes are magnified. It is for an exhibition featuring glass and plastic artwork by Ulrike and Thomas Oelzner at the Theaterpassage Gallery in Berlin (September 1979).

• Politische Grafik

  This poster has a red background with two columns of black text. Both columns of text contain the same information. It is for an exhibition featuring political artwork at the Sachsenplatz Gallery in Leipzig (September 27 - October 17, 1978).

• Hernando Leon

  This poster shows an image of a bearded man wearing a large coat and hat standing in front of a cityscape. Overlaid on the image are sketches and writings, as well as red angles and lines. It is for an exhibition featuring work by Chilean artist Hernando Leon at the Museum of Fine Art in Leipzig (November 4, 1983 - January 22, 1984).

• Literatur und Kunst im Dialog

  This poster has a light blue background and shows a graphic design featuring white triangles and a black pentagon. It is for an exhibition titled "Literature and Art in Dialogue" at the Museum of Fine Art in Leipzig (August 12 - September 22, 1985).

• Max Lingner: Ausstellung zum 90. Geburtstag

  This poster has a white background and shows a small photograph of Max Lingner at his desk illustrating. He is wearing glasses. His signature is displayed largely in the middle of the poster. It is for an exhibition featuring his paintings and illustrations at the Museum of Fine Art in Leipzig (November 16, 1978 - January 28, 1979).

• Daumier Ehrung 1979

  This poster shows an illustration of a man sculpting a bus of another man who is modeling for the sculptor. The model has a large nose. It is for an exhibition featuring work by French artist Honoré Daumier in Karl-Marx-Stadt.

• Deutsche Dichterbildnisse

  This poster shows an illustration of a portrait of man with long hair and a large nose. The portrait is framed in an oval border with a ribbon at the top. It is for an exhibition featuring portraits of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from the past to the present (March 20 - May 30, 1982).

• Kunst in Leipzig

  This poster shows a painting of a grey tube of paint with a yellow cap being launched into space. The streaks behind the tube are different colors of paint strokes and paint splashes. It is for an exhibition featuring art by Leipzig artists from 1949 - 1984 at the Museum of Fine Art in Leipzig (October 5 - November 25, 1984).