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Ludwig Hohlwein
People's Charity for German prisonsers of warcirca 1918

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Lithograph poster with bold black and red graphics showing a hunched figure gripping prison bars, a large red heart behind him, with German blackletter text below
Artist or Maker
Ludwig Hohlwein
Germany, 1874-1949
Title
People's Charity for German prisonsers of war
Place Made
Germany, Munich
Date Made
circa 1918
Medium
Lithograph printed in black, red and olive-green on poster paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 35 1/8 × 24 1/4 in. (89.22 × 61.6 cm) Image: 33 × 20 5/8 in. (83.82 × 52.39 cm) Frame: 38 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 1 7/8 in. (97.79 × 69.85 × 4.76 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA
Accession Number
M.2003.114.81
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Benson, Timothy O. Imagined Fronts: The Great War and Global Media. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2023.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn