Germaine Krull André Malraux, Paris 1930
“One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.“ André Malraux, “L'espoir” (Man’s Hope), 1938
Germaine Krull Jean Cocteau, Paris 1929
“We must believe in luck. How else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?” Jean Ccoteau, 1955
Germaine Krull Self-portrait, Paris 1927
Germaine Krull Self-portrait with Icarette (Camera) and Cigarette c.1925
François Kollar Construction Worker, France 1936
François Kollar Picking Wine Grapes, Morey-Saint-Denis, Côte- d’Or, Burgundy, France 1931
François Kollar Haute couturière Elsa Schiaparelli in the Window of Her Showroom, 21 Place Vendôme, Paris 1938
François Kollar Fashion Model Muth Wearing Balenciaga 1930
Genia Rubin Lisa Fonssagrives 1937
John Heartfield Communist Party of Germany (KPD) Campaign Poster 1928
The KPD parliamentary slate was List 5 in the 1928 German election. The text of the campaign poster reads “5 fingers has the hand. With 5 you seize the enemy. Vote List 5.”
The results of the 1928 election had the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving 29.76% of the vote, the KPD receiving 10.62% and the Nazis receiving 2.63%, among many other parties. By the last free election in Germany, that of Nov 1932, the Nazis had become the largest faction in the Reichstag, with 33.09% of the vote, but the parties of the left, the Communists and the Social Democrats, combined still received a higher percentage (36.29%). Sadly, the KPD and the SPD refused to open their eyes and see the threat the Nazis held for them and for the world at large, and continued to refuse to temporarily put aside their significant political difference in order to build a united front against fascism. Those that weren’t murdered in concentration camps hopefully learned from their mistake.
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