East German Poster Database

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• Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der SR Vietnam

  Poster is white with a Vietnamese flag in center. Title in black above reads "Contemporary art from Vietnam".

• Kleine Humboldtgalerie Berlin

  This poster is off-white with a black line drawing of a skeletal soldier huddled beneath a coat and hugging a gun. The title reads, "Small Humboldt Gallery Berlin, Against the War- Graphics since 1914". The exhibit would be between July 6th, to September 2nd of 1982.

• Geteilte Interpretationen Maler sehen die Mauer

  This poster is black with white text. It advertises a permanent exhibition of "Split Interpretations, Painters see the Wall". Includes depictions of five pieces from the exhibit. The exhibit is open daily from 9am to 8pm.

• Austellung Berlin Nov. 89

  This poster features a black and white photograph of a woman holding flowers and a newspaper in her left hand and dabbing her eyes with her right amidst a crowd of people; presumably the day the Wall came down. The photo itself was taken by Rupert Leser. This poster advertises an photography exhibit featuring the work of Dietmar Bührer, Mike Hughes, Rupert Leser, Dieter Matthes, and Andreas Neumann. The exhibit to be held on November 12th, 1989 at the "Typophoto" Galerie für zeitgemäße Photographie im 'Kreuz'.

• Apokalyptische Visionen: 3 Jahre Siebdruck

  Poster is a silkscreen print. Shows famous photo of Phan Thị Kim Phúc with a red nuclear symbol in the center of her chest. Image is superimposed on gold and black medieval apocalyptic imagery. Title reads "Apocalyptic Visons: 3 Years Silkscreen: Jürgen Gottschalk". Information about the artist is printed on the reverse.

• Ihr Programm lebt

  Poster is red and black collage of images and newspaper text of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Title reads "Their program lives on." Poster is two in a series of two.

• Wir ehren Karl und Rosa

  Poster is a red and black collage of images and newspaper text of Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Title reads "We honor Karl and Rosa." Poster is one in a series of two.

• [Erich Honecker]

  Poster is a large portrait of Erich Honecker with a blue background. Image commonly used as Honecker's definitive portrait.

• Solidarität mit den Völkern Afrikas / Woche der Solidarität

  White poster with black type. Features 2 x 2 grid: each cell contains an image of Africa, with a yellow and black close-up of an African woman superimposed on top. The photo becomes progressively larger from left to righ until it fills the bottom right cell. Title reads "Solidarity with the people of Africa / Solidarity Week".

• Aus meiner Kindheit

  Brown and white film poster for Aus meiner Kindheit (From my childhood), about Ernst Thälmann. Shows close-up of (presumably) actor playing Thälmann. Based on the book by Wera and Claus Küchenmeister and Volker Koepp.

• Freiheit / Almeyda / Gegen Faschistische Diktatur in Chile

  Poster is a large Chilean flag (predominantely red) with a black and white portrait of Clodomiro Almeyda in center. Title reads "Freedom / Almeyda / Against fascist dictatorship in Chile."

• ”… heute erleben wir den Moment, wo wir sagen können: Wir sind weider bei Marx, unter seinem Banner.”

  Poster is red and white with black type. Quote top left (title) reads "Today we are witnessing the moment when we can say that we are back with Marx, under his banner." Bottom text declares the 60th anniversary of the founding of the KPD (1918-1978).

• 10 Años de Lucha Antifascista del Pueblo Chileno/Con la Razón y la Fuerza Venceremos!/Viva la Rebelión Popular!

  Poster features large abstract print of Chilean citizens and the Chilean rebellion. Title reads "10 years of fighting antifacists of the chilean town/With reason and force we will overcome/Long live the Popular Rebellion!"

• Karl Marx-Jahr 1983

  Poster is large sepia portrait of Karl Marx superimposed on the photographic image of a crowd. Top left reads "His name will live through the centuries, and also his work". Poster celebrates the centenary of Marx's death.

• Fürsorge und Geborgenheit in unserer Gesellschaft / Unsere Stimme den Kandidaten der Nationalen Front!

  Poster has beige background and red and black type. Features center photo of elderly couple. Title reads "Care and security in our society / Our vote for the candidates of the National Front!" Poster for May 7, 1989, elections in East Germany.

• alle Meschen sind farbig

  Poster features five angular, stylized faces of different colors on black background. Title reads "All people are colored."

• Es lebe der 1. Mai

  Poster features a large numeral "1" covered in ribbons and flowers in manner of May Pole, with three ribbons featuring the colors of the German flag and the DDR insignia. Title reads "Long live the 1st of May." FDGB insignia bottom right.

• 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.

• Caramba!

  Poster is gray with stylized red fist smashing a black and yellow construction with a skull beneath. Title includes quote by Pablo Neruda, "The spring cannot be stopped".

• Friedenspost

  Poster is gray with a 4 x 4 grid of photos featuring the faces of children from varying cultural backgrounds. Title reads "Peace Post — Youth of the world for the peace of the world". The pictures can be cut out to create postcards, which are printed on the reverse of the poster.

• 1789 — 200 Jahre Große Französische Revolution

  Poster features a large sepia print of The Tennis Court Oath by Jacques Louis David. Quote beneath by Lenin on the greatness of the French Revolution.

• Solidarität für Antiimperialistische Frieden und Freundschaft

  Poster features 25 posters of the East German Solidarity initiative from the 1970s and 1980s. Title reads "Solidarity for Anti-imperialist peace and friendship."

• Nelson Mandela/Eine demokratische und freie Gesellschaft, in der alle friedlich und mit gleichen Möglichkeiten miteinander leben können, hat mir stets als Ideal vorgeschwebt.

  Poster features large, coarse-grained black and white portrait of Nelson Mandela on green, black and yellow background with red bottom border. Includes quote by Mandela: "I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities".

• [Ernst Thälmann]

  Poster is a large red and black portrait of Ernst Thälmann. Poster is two in a series of two.