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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

Ludwig Hohlwein, People's Charity for German prisonsers of war, circa 1918, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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