Socialist Realist Portraitureさんのイラストまとめ

Renato Guttuso (Italian, 1911-1987). Grecia 1952 (aka Fucilazione di patrioti or Fucilazione di NiKos Beloyannis), 1952. Oil on paper applied on canvas, 143 x 210 cm. Nikos Beloyannis (1915-1952) was a Greek resistance leader and member of the Greek Communist Party accused...

Leopoldo Méndez (Mexican, 1902-1969). Deportation to Death, 1942. The Vengeance of the People, 1942. Fight Against Fascism, 1936. Linocuts, various sizes. ©SOMAAP, Mexico City.

In 1933 Lex-Nerlinger was prevented from practising her profession or exhibiting. This drove Alice to inner exile, although she still continued to carry out some political activities against the Nazi regime. Uniforms Yield Dividends, 1931. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Photomontage artist and painter Alice Lex-Nerlinger (German, 1893-1975) joined the KPD in 1928 and the ASSO in 1931. She boldly rejected Expressionism, Cubism or Dadaism as bourgeois l’art pour l’art. Political prisoner, 1933. Mixed media, 70x50cm. Academie der Künste, berlin

Lothar Zitzmann (German, 1924-1977). Weltjugendlied (World Youth Song), 1975. Oil on hardboard, 280x552 cm. Deutsches Historisches Museum-Bildarchiv, originally commissioned for the gallery of the Palace of the Republic in Berlin (1975-2008).

Wolfram Schubert (German, 1926). Brot für Alle (Bread for All), 1975. Tempera, 368 × 280 cm. Commissioned for the former Palast der Republik, this picture later became an iconic stamp for the Deutsche Post on the occasion of the Stamp Exhibition of Socialist Countries in 1977.

Erhard Großmann (German, 1936). Tajikistan, 1975. Tempera on hardboard, 280 x 600 cm. Commissioned for the gallery of the disappeared Palast der Republik (1976-2006), Berlin.

Rudolf Bergander (German, 1909-1970). Fröhlicher Tag Auf der Terrasse (Happy Day on the Terrace), 1958. Oil on canvas, 72 x 128,5 cm. Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden. "In Socialism, there is no longer an existential struggle over secure leisure time."

In 1970 Roland Paris (German, 1933) finished his Lob des Kommunismus (Praise of Communism) in the conference room of the Haus der Statistik in Berlin. Eleven meters long, it is named after the poem of the same title by Bertolt Brecht included in the mural. #DDR

Wilhelm Lachnit (1899-1962). Der Tod von Dresden (The Death of Dresden), 1945. Mixed media on canvas, 200,5 x 113,5 cm. Despite criticism for its formalistic approach, the piece was eventually acquired in 1957 from the artist with funds from the GDR Culture Fund. #DDR #WWII