History and Culture: The collection of wartime posters of 1941–1945 to go on display in the Victory Museum in Moscow

On August 1, 2018 the Victory Museum in Moscow is opening the exhibition “The Wartime Poster”. Izvestiya multimedia news center has contributed towards the exhibition project.

This is the retrospective exhibition of Soviet posters dated between 1941–1945. From the very outbreak of the Great Patriotic war this kind of graphic art became one of the key means of visual propaganda and agitation. Materials of the exhibition follow the changing subjects and emotional charge of a poster at different stages of the war.

The exposition features 50 items from the collections of the Victory Museum. Visitors will have an opportunity to see prints of legendary posters of Irakli Toidse, Alexey Kokorekin, Vladimir Serov, Viktor Ivanov, Viktor Koretsky and other renowned artists.

The exhibition also showcases original drafts from the Victory Museum collections. They exist in a single copy and go on display for the first time, in particular, the drawings of Nikolay Kogout and Vladislav Rykhlov-Pravdin.

The multimedia project “Animate caricatures” and archival collections of newspapers dated between 1944-1945, featuring works of the famous caricaturist Boris Yefimov, have been provided by Izvestiya multimedia news center.

The exhibition will run until October 1, 2018.