Posters part 3
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We continue our mini-series on ads in the form of posters featuring nude males. Today, posters from post-World War I through the 1920s. Above, a poster for an Italian tonic wine, 1919.
A Polish anti-Bolshevist poster showing Leon Trotsky sitting on a pile of skulls, 1920.
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A 1923 French poster for bicycles showing a bicyclist riding on an electric wire with sparks flying. Art by Paul Mohr.
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A French poster for spark plugs, c. 1925. More art by Paul Mohr.
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A third French poster with art by Paul Mohr, advertising brake jobs, 1929.
A 1924 poster by Croatian artist Jozo Kljaković shows Lenin smashing the old order.
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A 1926 German poster for Die Schönheit magazine.
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A Dutch poster for a 1928 exhibition in Utrecht.
A 1928 Italian Fascist poster promoting Italian agriculture, with a quote from Mussolini. Note that he is making the Fascist salute, which later became famous as "Heil Hitler".
8 comments:
A few of those are sexually suggestive. Very nice!
The poster for Italian tonic wine, 1919, got my attention. Awesome bare butts on the three vineyard workers. Easy to see why the tonic wine had healing powers.
Thanks for bringing lost advertising to the fore.
Fine poster art presented well !
The Italian tonic was a fine bitter amaro infused with iron citrate and Chinchona bark, hence the name Ferro China. Patented in 1881, it was considered medicinal by Italians in its day. Also the three nude men are on a hill overlooking the city of Bologna and its famous towers, creative of the poster artist.
The anti-Bolshevist poster of Trotsky by an anti -Communist group in Poland is of interest. In the 1920’s Stalin had the GPU/KGB infiltrate anti-Communist groups through out Europe, this poster targeting Trotsky was Stalin’s way of getting back at a bitter rival through one of many right-wing groups that were infiltrated. Putin, just like Stalin, does the same today. Putin learned well from his days at the KGB.
The poster of Lenin smashing the old order is actually Slovenian with non-Cyrillic script.
-Rj
I'll take some of that tonic wine.
These are really neat!
„Die Schönheit“ war eine ab 1902 in Dresden erscheinende Zeitschrift, die sich mich Kunst, Nackt-Kultur und Sexualität beschäftigte. Die Zeitschrift wurde schließlich von den Nazis unterdrückt und stellte in 1936 ihr Erscheinen ein.
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Thanks for pointing out that the Lenin poster is not Soviet. I found that it was by Croatian artist Jozo Kljaković. I have updated the caption.
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