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JULIUS USSY ENGELHARD (1883-1964) ANARCHIE. 1918. 48 1/4x36 1/2 inches, 122 1/2x92 3/4 cm. Oscar Consee, Munich. Condition B+: vertical and horizontal folds; restoration in margins and image. Both this poster ("Distress and Ruin Follow Anarchy") and another variation (with the caption "Bolshevism brings War, Unemployment and Hunger") were directed against the German Spartacus League. This movement aimed at stirring a Communist revolution within Germany on the basis of the discontentment brought on by the starvation and privation that plagued Germany after the First World War. Ironically, the vicious King Kong-like figure was successfully used by the Allies during the war to depict the Germans and then in the post-war revolutionary period was co-opted by the Germans to depict Bolshevists and Anarchists. IWM p. 23, Paret 178 (var), Politische Plakate p. 49 and p. 27 (var).
