The Flight of General Manstein

Prints and Drawings

April 17, 1944

Sergei Nikolaevich Kostin
(Born Moscow, 1896; died Moscow, 1968)
Irina Petrova
(Birth and death dates unknown)

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Artist: Sergei N. Kostin
Title: The Flight of General Manstein
Place: Russia (Artist's nationality:)
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 commander of the southern group of German forces on the eastern front, General Manstein, has fled with his staff to Romania. Inscribed on the sign: To Romania; To the USSR Manstein heads west, Manstein doesn’t want to rest. He rushes directly to Jassy, But he can’t sit still in Jassy. The transit passenger moans: “Where shall I run? What a small world!”
Dimensions: 187 × 86.1 cm (73 5/8 × 33 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.85

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