Details

Title

Poster for Wilnaer Zeitung

Artist/Maker

Walter Buhe (German, 1882–1958)

Date

ca. 1916-1918

Medium

Color lithographic print on paper, linen backed

Dimensions

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Credit

Gift of Cox Communications

Accession #

2013.187

Location

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 2, Gallery 207

In late summer 1915, following months of fighting against Russian forces, the German army occupied the city of Vilnius—today the capital of Lithuania—and promptly founded a propagandistic German-language newspaper, Wilnaer Zeitung. In addition to articles on the ongoing war, the daily featured picturesque illustrations of city life by artist Walter Buhe, who also created advertisements, like this poster. Promising the latest news (Das Neueste) for one and a half marks a month, the poster depicts a newsboy brandishing a copy of the paper, his patched clothes revealing the lower-class status of many wartime street peddlers.