JULIUS USSY ENGELHARD (1883-1964)
371
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ELEND UND UNTERGANG FOLGEN DER ANARCHIE. 1918.
49
1
/
4
x36
1
/
2
inches, 125x92
3
/
4
cm. Oscar Consee, Munich.
Condition B / B+: repaired tear through bottom edge into text and image; tape on verso along tears and
edges; tears, creases, abrasions and discoloration in margins and image; vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.
A smoking red bomb in one hand and a knife in the other, a fanged, angry ape figure is treacherously
poised against a yellow background. Both this poster (“Distress and Ruin Follow Anarchy”) and a
variation from 1919 with the caption “Bolshevism Brings War, Unemployment and Hunger” were
directed against the German Spartacus League. This was a movement aimed at stirring a Communist
revolution in Germany on the basis of the discontentment brought on by the starvation and privation
that plagued Germany after the First World War. Ironically, the vicious ape figure was successfully used
by the Allies during the war to depict the Germans, and later in the post-war revolutionary period, was
co-opted by the Germans to depict Bolshevists and Anarchists. IWM p. 23, Paret 178 (var), Politische
Plakate 17, Zeit Zeiger p. 147.
[1,500/2,000]
GEORGE KARAU (1876-1936)
372
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DIE TOTEN RUFEN! 1919.
37
1
/
4
x24
1
/
2
inches, 94
3
/
4
x62
1
/
4
cm. Atelier George Karau.
Condition A- / B+: tears at edges; creases in margins and image; vertical and horizontal folds
Denscher p. 184, Tagebuch 120.
[800/1,200]
VIKTOR ARNAUD (DATES UNKNOWN)
373
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DIE HEIMAT IST IN GEFAHR. 1919.
37
1
/
4
x27
1
/
2
inches, 94
3
/
4
x70 cm. R. Barnick, Berlin.
Condition B+ / B: repaired tear through lower left edge affecting text; tears and minor losses in margins and
image; vertical and horizontal folds; tape on verso. Paper.
[1,200/1,800]
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