East German Poster Database

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• Solidarität

  the poster depicts a version of Da Vinci's Vitruvian man stylized to look like a Black African. The man is breaking "chains" that connect two of his wrists and that read "Apartheid." At the top of the poster in red is the word "Solidarity."

• 8. Mai / 1945 1985

  Poster commemorates the May Day celebration from 1985. It is also the 40 year anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The poster shows a large photograph of a child being held by a soldier. Oversize.

• Nie wider faschismus und Krieg!/…seit 40 Jahren Staatspolitik

  Poster is black with stippled black and white depiction of a hand holding up two fingers together. Title reads "Never again facism and war!/…State politics for 40 years". Box 1.

• Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin

  Poster features an abstract, pastel portrait of Vladimir Lenin, with quote in top left corner reading "In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system." Poster is three in a series of four.

• Karl Marx

  Poster features an abstract, pastel portrait of Karl Marx, with quote in the top left corner reading "There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits". Poster is one in a series of four.

• Die Geschichte des Sozialismus ist für uns als Kampfpartei die Lebensschule. Wir empfangen daraus immer neue Anregungen.

  This poster is a stylized portrait of Rosa Luxemburg in red and white. The title reads, "The history of socialism is, for us as a fighting party, the school of life. We always get new incitements from it."

• Alles, was die Menschen in Bewegung setzt, muß durch ihren Kopf hindurch;

  This poster is a large impressionistic portrait of Friedrich Engels in multiple colors. The text states, "Everything which sets men in motion must go through their minds; but what form it will take in the mind will depend very much upon the circumstances." This quote from Engels is from his work "Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy".

• Ohne Liebe

  This poster is a graphic, repeated line illustration of a woman, mid-stride on a white background. She is wearing a suit, and high heels, with a satchel over her shoulder, smoking a cigarette. The main has diagonal, multicolored slashes giving movement to the image. This film is Polish.

• Echt Stark

  A man with a hat opens his jacket to reveal a shirt with an image of city buildings. The poster appears to promote the 750 year anniversary of Berlin.