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KILL HIM!

Poster
1942
Artist/Maker
Kukruiniksui (artists)
Kupriianov, Mikhail Vasil'evich (artists)
Krylov, Porfirii Nikitich (artists)
Sokolov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (artists)
Place of origin
Soviet Union

Soviet WW2 poster by Kukrynisky entitled 'Kill Him!'. Soviet Union, 1942.

Object details

Category
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleKILL HIM!
Materials and techniques
Lithograph printed in black, grey, pink and red on paper
Paper
Lithography
Brief description
Soviet WW2 poster by Kukrynisky entitled 'Kill Him!'. Soviet Union, 1942.
Dimensions
  • Height: 41cm
  • Width: 27.7cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Russian; Cyrillic; Top right; printing; ink)
    Translation
    TASS WINDOW No. 527
  • K. SIMONOV (Cyrillic; Bottom right of verse; printing; ink)
  • (Russian; Cyrillic; Across the bottom; printing; ink)
    Translation
    Kubyshev State Publishing House. Edition 20 000. 1/2 p.l. Passed for printing 28/X 1942. EO30736. "Free Labour" Press. Order No. 304. Price 1r.50k. / Artistic Foundation Union SSR.
  • (Russian; Cyrillic; Above the image; printing; ink)
    Translation
    KILL HIM!
  • (Russian; Cyrillic; Below the image; printing; ink; Simonov, K)
    Translation
    If you want to give away / To the German with his black rifle, / The house where you lived, your wife and your mother, / All, that we call motherland, - / Know - nobody will save her, / If you don't save her. / Know - nobody will kill him, / If you don't kill him.
Credit line
Given in memory of Sir Alexander Sharp Bethune, Bt.
Production
Kukuinikskui was the pseudonym adopted by Kupriianov, Krylov and Sokolov

Reason For Production: Retail
Subject depicted
Great Patriotic War
Other number
527 - serial number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.614-1998

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Record createdNovember 3, 1999
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O11944/kill-him-poster-kupriianov-mikhail-vasilevich/
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