Anonym - 1937 - Exposition Internationale de Paris (Rassemblement Universel pour la Paix - RUP / Journée Nationale pour la Paix)

Exposition Internationale de Paris
poster for:

Rassemblement Universel pour la Paix (RUP)
Journée Nationale pour la Paix

1937
colour offset
80 cm x 60 cm
design illegible
print: Coopérative Etoile, Paris
was folded, traces by print and fold, any foxes
(see additional picture)


order no. 30626






Poster for the peace movement during the "Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne" 1937 in Paris, where there was the Pavillon de la Paix and where the "Deutsche Haus" was built in confrontation to the Sovjet Pavilion and where Picasso's 'Guernica' was shown in the Spanish Pavilion - from today's point of view shortly before the begin of the Second World War.
Rassemblement Universel pour la Paix was founded 1936 in Brussel by Lord Robert Cecil and Pierre Cot.

Political poster in the tradition of Jean Carlu and Wilchar (that is Wilhem Pauwels).
About the motif: The serpent of war is killed by the peace movement / RUP.

Lit.:
Mazuy, Rachel: Le Rassemblement Universel pour la Paix (1931-1939): une organisition de masse ?
In: Persée, Matériaux pour l'histoire de notre temps, Année 1993, pp.40-44 / https://www.persee.fr/doc/mat_0769-3206_1993_num_30_1_404091
In the Internet: Flierl, Thomas: Der Pavillon de la Paix auf der Weltausstellung Paris 1937, Vorträge im Max-Lingner-Haus, 2023