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HEINZ FUCHS (1886-1961)
7 ● ARBEITER, WOLLT IHR SATT WERDEN? 1919.
283/4x36 3/4 inches, 73x931/2 cm. A. Wohlfeld, Magdeburg.
Condition B+: repaired tears and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds and in margins; restored
losses at edges and in top right corner.
Fuchs worked for most of his life in his native Berlin. In addition to studies at the Berlin Akademie
under Lovis Corinth, he also studied at the Wiemar Art School. After World War I, he joined the
November Group, whose artistic members advocated for a social revolution, a greater role for artists
in the new German Republic and a unification between art and the populace. Between 1918 and
1919, the November Group also worked with the “Publicity Office of the German Republic”
(Werbedienst der Deutschen Republik), a governmental branch aimed at restoring civility and order
to society in the trauma following the end of the War. Fuchs designed two posters for the cause in his
“distinctive graphic style in which expressionist vocabularies of violent color and distorted form united
with dynamic yet legible text exhorting workers to support the new Republic” (www.moma.org). Here
the message reads, “Do you want to satisfy your hunger? Without coal there will be no food -
agriculture and mining are calling you,” and “work brings bread.” Politische Plakat p. 48, LACMA
M.2003.114.121. [2,000/3,000]