You Help as well!
Poster
1941 (made)
1941 (made)
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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.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Second World War poster aimed at recruiting German women into war work, designed by Theo Matejko, Germany, 1941 |
| Physical description | Central colour image of three women (left to right) striding forward with linked arms: a factory worker, a nurse and a labourer carrying a hoe. Rendered in black and white, the face of a soldier looms above them. German text printed in red across the lower margin. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Hilf auch Du mit! (printed in red)
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| 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 |
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| Summary | 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. |
| Other number | LS.274-2004 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
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| Accession number | E.274-2004 |
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| Record created | June 23, 2004 |
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