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LEOPOLDO MÉNDEZ Deportación a la Muerte.
Linoleum cut, 1942. 350x498 mm; 13 3/4x19 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. Printed and published by Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City.
This linoleum cut by Méndez (1902-1969) calls to attention the deportation of the masses of the persecuted population of Europe to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Founded by Méndez and other artists in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Gráfica Popular was committed to spreading anti-Fascist messages through linoleum cuts, a less expensive and more widely-accessible printmaking technique. Assisting the Liga Pro Cultura Alemana, an anti-Nazi organization established in Mexico in 1938, the Taller de Gráfica Popular workshop targeted what it saw as the two pillars of nazism: systematic use of terror and antisemitism.
This image was used as an illustration in 1943 for, El Libro negro del terror nazi en Europa (or The Black Book of Nazi Terror in Europe), published in Mexico City.
