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Front Illustrierte August, 1941 Nr 2 - Soviet Harvest 1941 - Aleksandr Zhitomirsky
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From the private collection of Aleksandr Zhitomirsky
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For today we’ll come back to the Russian propaganda series Front Illustrierte. That we somehow ended up with Soviet Union’s most famous WW2 propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky’s personal bound collection, is absolutely fantastic. Today we’ll look at leaflet Nr. 2 from 1941 and talk about its content. We’ll look at a clip from a Soviet training film for propagandists and then finally, we’ll see more from the 1941 film that the introduction clip comes from. During the last 40 seconds of this video I’ve animated one of my favorite photo montages that Zhitomirsky produced for the May 1942 edition of Front Illustrierte. I think it works well and I’d be interested in hearing what you think about it in the comment section below.
The Front Illustrated propaganda leaflet series was produced for the German soldiers by the Red Army during World War 2. The series typically contained numerous caricatures and photomontages, which were mainly designed by Aleksander Zhitomirsky (and strongly remind of Heartfield) The leaflets usually had 4 pages that were intricately produced in gravure.
The journal appeared first in July 1941, the last number 97 is from April 1945. It also emphasizes the inevitable decline of the German army and the exemplary treatment of German prisoners of war and the civilian population in the occupied territories by the Red Army.
Hand bound and numbered limited editions (Nr. 20-30/100) with 51 pages; professionally photograped and printed on 170 gsm card; 32 x 22.5 cm.
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