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PAT [SCHIEMANN, E.]. Tsar, Priest, and Kulak, 1918

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[Tsar, Priest, and Kulak], a VTsIK Publishing poster in a Slavic language very similar to Ukrainian or Belarusian (possibly in Ruthenian). VTsIK Publishing, Moscow, 1918. 69 x 50.5 cm.

The first poster produced under the VTsIK aegis, [Tsar, Priest, and Kulak] was widely distributed all over Soviet Russia (as evidenced by the Apsit poster offered as Lot 2), and published in several languages. In his memoir about Mayakovsky, artist Mikhail Cheremnykh writes about the artist Pat, who first came up with idea to use stencils in the production of ROSTA posters, and mentions that Pat was also the author of [Tsar, Priest, and Kulak]. Assuming that Cheremnykh's memory served him well, the pseudonym Pat must then refer to Eduard Schiemann (1885-1942) - see Mayakovsky's attribution of the stenciling idea in his 1923 essay Revolyustionny Plakat [Revolutionary Poster]. Schiemann, who studied art in Munich, was the member of the Jack of Diamonds group, but one would be hard pressed to find a connection between the style of this poster, and the artistic sensibilities of the Russian avant-garde movement.

Search extension words / key tags: Russian poster, Soviet propaganda.

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