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Public subscription to a series of nine war loans provided over 60% of Germany's war costs. Posters promoting war loans aimed to empower and mobilise the civilian public, and became more aesthetically creative as the war went on. Working within an established cultural context, German poster designers could rely on high levels of literacy in the public, and so posters usually incorporated a great deal of written information. Imperial emblems, chivalric imagery and gothic script were also used to allude to medieval German woodcuts and Teutonic paganism. Such images of German romanticism called to mind a culturally and ethnically superior Germany, stressing the historic mission of the German culture. Produced to promote the 7th War Loan, this poster depicts a youthful lone German warrior courageously fighting off a five headed serpent-like dragon. Each head is designed to represent the enemy allies (the largest representing a particularly vicious Woodrow Wilson) and the poem below promises that the 'German sharp sword' will triumph over deception as long as money is provided. The poster stresses the need to defend Germany's past cultural and economic achievements, with gothic text used to invoke tales of gallant medieval knights slaying dragons in German literature. This is one of 13 First World War posters purchased by the Memorial at the auction of the Dr Hans Sachs poster collection in 2013. Berthold Clauss (1882-1969) was a painter, lithographer, illustrator and sculptor.
German First World War poster depicting an eagle's head (representing Imperial Germany) and a dove (symbolising peace) carrying an olive branch . The poster appeals for subscribers to the eighth war l
Public subscription to a series of nine war loans provided over 60% of Germany's war costs. Posters promoting war loans aimed to empower and mobilise the civilian public, and became more aesthetically
Public subscription to a series of nine war loans provided over 60% of Germany's war costs. Posters promoting war loans aimed to empower and mobilise the civilian public, and became more aesthetically
Public subscription to a series of nine war loans provided over 60% of Germany's war costs. This German First World War poster presents a blue silhouette of a surfacing U-Boat containing three crew me
Public subscription to a series of nine war loans provided over 60% of Germany's war costs. Posters promoting war loans aimed to empower and mobilise the civilian public, and became more aesthetically
German First World War poster asking people to give gold for defence of the Fatherland. The poster depicts a woman holding out a golden pendent with her left hand and a jewellery box under her right a