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A "Statesman" of Contemporary Germany

A work made of stencil.

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Date:

August 25, 1944

Artist:

Nikolai Fedorovich Denisovskii
(Born Moscow, 1901; died Moscow, 1981)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Nikolai F. Denisovskii

Title

A "Statesman" of Contemporary Germany

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Original 1944

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

The Lublin camp, with its calculated and fearsomely methodical technique of exterminating people, again strongly underscores the STATE-SPONSORED nature of the German organization of mass murder and torture. ([From the newspaper] Krasnaia zvezda)

Dimensions

166.1 × 86.2 cm (65 7/16 × 33 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.78

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