Anonym - 1937 - Place du Palais Bourbon Paris (Rassemblement Universel pour la Paix - RUP)

Paris, Place du Palais Bourbon
poster for:

Rassemblement Universel pour la Paix (RUP)
Journée pour la Paix

1937
colour offset
80 cm x 60 cm
design: A Weic, A Wek, Awek (?)
print: Coopérative Etoile, Paris
was folded, traces by print and fold, any foxes
(see additional picture)


order no. 30626






Poster for the peace movement during the "Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne" 1937 in Paris, where the "Deutsche Haus" was built in confrontatioon to the Sovjet Pavilion and where Picasso's 'Guernica' was shown in the Spanish Pavilion - from today's point of view shortly before the begin of the Second World War.
Political poster in the tradition of Jean Carlu and Wilchar (that is Wilhem Pauwels).

 

Lit.:
Mazuy, Rachel: Le Rassemblement Universel pour la Paix (1931-1939): une organisition de masse ?
In: Persée, Matériaux pour l'histoire de notre temps, Année 1993, pp.40-44 / https://www.persee.fr/doc/mat_0769-3206_1993_num_30_1_404091