Title:  National War Relief Exhibition

Description

• In World War I, all sides used posters as tools to mobilize their populations for the war effort. This poster, published in Pozsony (present-day Bratislava, Slovakia) in 1917, shows a disabled veteran with a prosthetic arm using a scythe to harvest wheat. The text announces the National War Relief Exhibition in Pozsony. The poster was created by Pal Sujan, a popular artist whose portraits and other paintings were widely shown in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sujan was born in Budapest in 1880, studied art, and worked as an art teacher in Pozsony.

Artist

• Sujan, Pal (1880)

Date Created

• 1917

Publication Information

• Angermayer Károly Müintézete, Pozsony

Language

• German

Title in Original Language

• Landes-Kriegsfürsorge-Ausstellung Sujan

Place

• Europe > Austria
• Europe > Germany
• Europe > Slovakia

Time

• 1900 AD - 1949 AD

Topic

• Arts & recreation > Graphic arts > Prints
• History & geography > History of Europe

Additional Subjects

• Disabled veterans ; Harvesting ; War posters ; World War, 1914-1918

Type of Item

• Prints, Photographs

Physical Description

• 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 125 x 63 centimeters

Collection

• World War I Posters

Institution

• Library of Congress

External Resource

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/dlc.250

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