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JULIUS KLINGERKRIEGSANLEIHE. 1918. 37 1/2x24 3/4 inches. J. Weiner, Vienna. Condition A. Slithering its way through a bright red "8", a green dragon's head is pierced with 8 black arrows. When Klinger began his career as a posterist in Berlin in 1897, his style was reflective of the Art Nouveau movement. By the time he moved to Vienna in 1915, he rejected the flowery style of fin de siecle Paris and "began purifying and refining his work to a series of flat decorative forms executed in a limited number of colours with precisely handled lettering." This powerful image (by many accounts a plagarization of a poster by Willy Menz featuring a snake pierced by 6 swords!) calling for an 8th war loan, graphically depicts the weakening of Austria's evil enemy, where each previous war loan is represented by another arrow. (IWM p.36) Darracott 24, Denscher p. 151, IWM p.36.
