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Kraft Durch Freude - KDF Theater

Poster
1939 (made)
Artist/Maker
Druck F. Adametz (printers)
Thomasberger, R. (artist)
Place of origin
Austria (made)

Theatre scene. The outlines of three figures are defined in the foreground, watching the stage scene below from box seats. A small player is rendered in burgundy on the luminous yellow stage. The background is mostly blue with a red curtain pulled to the left. Green on blue text.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Propaganda
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleKraft Durch Freude - KDF Theater (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Paper
Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
Kraft Durch Freude - KDF Theater poster by Thomasberger. Austria. 1939.
Physical description
Theatre scene. The outlines of three figures are defined in the foreground, watching the stage scene below from box seats. A small player is rendered in burgundy on the luminous yellow stage. The background is mostly blue with a red curtain pulled to the left. Green on blue text.
Dimensions
  • Height: 62.9cm
  • Width: 47.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • NS DAP . GAU WIEN . DIE DEUTSCHE ARBEITS FRONT NS . - GEM EINSCHAFT/ KRAFT DURCH FREUDE/ KDF - THEATER - RINGE 1939-40 (across upper margin and middle right - printed in German Gothic and sans serif texts)
  • FINMAL IM MONAT MIT KDF. INS THEATER/ AUSKÙNFTE BEI DEN BETRIEBS - UND ORTS - KDF. - WARTEN, ANMELDUNG IN ALLEN KDF. - VERKAUF SSTELLEN (bottom)
  • Druck F. Adametz, Wien 18. (bottom right, within image)
  • R. Thomasberger (Designer's name in green on blue, vertically printed along right margin)
  • Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Arbeitsfront Gauwaltung Wien, ABT. Propaganda (vertically along left margin)
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
Subjects depicted
Propaganda
Theatre
Stage
Audience
Actor
Swastika
Place depicted
Austria
Other number
LS.1627 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.370-2004

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Record createdSeptember 15, 2004
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O105332/kraft-durch-freude---poster-thomasberger-r/
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