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Kill Him!
Kukryniksy - Enlarge image
Kill Him!
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (made)
- Date:
1942 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Kukryniksy (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.281-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 1B, box LS1
Kukryniksy (an acronym of the names of its three members, Mikhail Kupriyanov (1903-post 1941), Porfiry Krylov (1902-ante 1941), and Nikolai Sokolov (1903-post 1941)) was a prolific collective of artists who specialised in biting satire. Tass Windows, published by the state news agency TASS, revived the Rosta Windows published by the Russian telegraph agency ROSTA during the Civil War. The decision to re-launch the Windows was taken by a meeting of the Union of Artists within two days of Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941. Based on topical themes, Tass Windows were stencilled and then reproduced in up to 1000 copies in three or more colours. More than seventy artists were involved in their production over the course of the conflict, with up to twenty-four new Windows appearing per month at its height.
