The Arsonists Burn

Prints and Drawings

April 21, 1943

Vladimir Lebedev
Born St. Petersburg, 1891; died Leningrad, 1967
Samuil Iakovlevich Marshak
Born Voronezh, 1887; died Moscow, 1964

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Vladimir V. Lebedev
Title: The Arsonists Burn
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 1943
Medium: Stencil
Inscriptions: The Führer had predicted Fireworks for Germany. His prediction has come true: The burning buildings crackle. And Hitler, Göring and company Hide from the thunder in the cellar.
Dimensions: 173 × 79 cm (68 1/8 × 31 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.117

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