Die Saat des Todes ...
Poster
1937 (made)
1937 (made)
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Poster depicting a photomontage of a skeleton in a helmet sowing swastika, with people wearing gas-masks are carrying off a corpse in the background on the left
Object details
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| Title | Die Saat des Todes ... (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Half-tone line block |
| Brief description | Poster from a set of 20, designed by John Heartfield entitled 'Die Saat des Todes ...' [The seed of death. Where this sower goes through the country he heaps hunger, death and fire], issued as no.8 of a series, published by Verlag für Agitations- und Anschauungsmittel with the Academy of Art D.D.R.. Germany, 1937 |
| Physical description | Poster depicting a photomontage of a skeleton in a helmet sowing swastika, with people wearing gas-masks are carrying off a corpse in the background on the left |
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| Credit line | Given by Erica Millman |
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| Accession number | E.4069:14-1995 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2009 |
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