The Gauleiter’s Trick, or a Futile Disguise

Prints and Drawings

May 11, 1945

Sergei Nikolaevich Kostin
(Born Moscow, 1896; died Moscow, 1968)
Aleksandr Alekseevich Zharov
(Born Semenovskaia, 1904; died Moscow, 1984)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Sergei N. Kostin
Title: The Gauleiter’s Trick, or a Futile Disguise
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.: 1945
Medium: Stencil
Inscriptions: In order to escape revenge, The living scoundrel gets in his coffin. Changing his clothes, the bandit gets up Looking like a peaceful civilian. But the Fascist cannot trick us With his false mask Or his snow-white scarf. He will not escape retribution!
Dimensions: 115 × 120 cm (45 5/16 × 47 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
Reference Number: 2010.92

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