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You Help as well!
Matejko, Theo, born 1893 - died 1946 - Enlarge image
You Help as well!; Hilf auch Du mit!
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
Germany (made)
- Date:
1941 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Matejko, Theo, born 1893 - died 1946 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Colour lithograph
- Credit Line:
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
- Museum number:
E.274-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR7
Nazi ideology relegated women to a purely domestic role. The demands of war, however, forced the Party to rely heavily on female labour. This poster seeks to reconcile the reality of the labour need with a Nazi ideal of womanhood. The portrait of the soldier looms above the factory worker, nurse and agricultural labourer, suggesting that these women are still essentially serving men. The open-air setting recalls one of the themes found in Nazi-inspired art which portrayed women in association with the nurturing functions of the earth.
