Playing with the Picture

Pictorial Modernism

William Nicholson, left, and James Pryde with Nicholson's son Ben, 1899

Plakatstil (poster style) (1900 -1930)

Lucian Bernhard, poster, 1905

Plakatstil (poster style) (1900 -1930)

Other designs by Bernhard, 1910-1912

Hans Rudi Erdt, poster for Opel automobiles, 1911

The Poster Goes to War

What are the styles?What are the

messages/functions?

Hans Rudi Erdt, U Boote Heraus!

The U-Boats (German submarines)are Out!

c. 1916 poster for German propaganda film

Ludwig Hohlwein, 1914

Julius Klinger

Kriegsanleihe=warbonds

Bernhard 1918

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14-28Joseph C. Leyendecker

Leyendecker

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14-30Jessie Willcox Smith