Vintage East German Film & Propaganda Posters
As the dust of WWII settled, Germany was split in two. A wall separated the western side from the Soviet sponsored east, the German Democratic Republic. A satellite state of the USSR, East Germany forbade its citizens to travel abroad. It also exerted an iron fist when it came to art.
Film posters escaped the censors’ eye. They were considered a minor discipline, no more than decoration. East German artists like Otto Kummert and Erhard Grüttner created surprisingly dreamlike film posters which increasingly became more abstract, until a single sign or symbol could represent an entire movie.
The Lonely White Sail | East Germany | 1978
£250
Folk Creation | East Germany | 1963
£350
Tierpark Berlin Duck | East Germany | 1983
£500
Secrets of Women | Germany | 1962
£200
Circus Rehearsal | East Germany | 1986
£350
Circus - Diptych | East Germany | 1960s
£1400
In the White Horse Inn | East Germany | 1982
£150
Tierpark Berlin | East Germany | 1977
£600
Richard the Third | Germany | 1973
£300
Horizons | Germany | 1974
£550
Telephone | Germany | 1969
£600
Tierpark Berlin | East Germany | 1963
£800
Tierpark Berlin | East Germany | 1965
£400
Between Greed & Love | East Germany | 1966
£450
Tierpark Berlin | East Germany | 1972
£500
Tierpark Berlin | East Germany | 1975
£450
A Delicacy - Carp | East Germany | 1957
£200
Two Women & One Revolver | East Germany | 1970
£650
The Killer & the Girl | East Germany | 1970s
£400
Panic in the Tokyo Express | East Germany | 1976
£550
Paris Blues | East Germany | 1970
£500
Song of the Scarlet Flower | East Germany | 1971
£300
Time to Die | East Germany | 1985
£250
The Dance Palace | East Germany | 1987
£400
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