Anton Hoffmann, Drachenkampf

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				Price: € 2.100

Description

‘Drachenkampf’ (‘Dragon fight’)
Biography: Anton Hoffmann

Design for a war bond.
Original large drawing, created in 1917.

World War I was the first war in which posters, along with postcards and movies, played a dominant role in mass communication. It was not only a war with soldiers fighting at the front; the whole war economy had a big influence on the civil population. War bond posters used patriotic motifs and symbols like the black-yellow flag of the Kaiserreich and the double-eagle of the Habsburgers. The war, which was fought using all means including tanks, airplanes and poison gas, was depicted on posters as the setting of heroic fighting. Especially scenes with German knights fighting dragons were popular. For many painters and artists propaganda painting was the only way to be exempt from duty.
Hoffmann was famous for the several war bond posters he painted. Many of them depicted dragon fights. Some copies of Kriegsanliehes are displayed in museums (see under); however, those are prints (posters), not the original drawings of Anton Hoffmann.
This design for a war bond (Drachenkampf) from 1917 leaves to the audience’s imagination which snake was France, Britain, America, Russia, Canada, Belgium, Italy or Portugal.

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