1916 · Paris
by NEUMONT, Maurice
Paris, 1916. Original Poster. Lithograph. Measures 46.5" x 34.5". This World War I poster advertises a benefit honoring Louis Raemaekers, a Dutch caricaturist who expressed an anti-German view during the war. Raemaekers emerges from what appears to be an Edam cheese pointing an oversized pencil at a cartoon personification of Germania. From the outset of the war, Raemaekers (1869-1956) was a fierce critic of the Germans and used his cartoons, published in the newspaper "De Telegraaf", to promote the position that the Netherlands should join the Allies. Some minor chips to margins and offsetting, otherwise in good condition. Maurice Neumont (1868-1930) was born in Paris, During the First World War he produced several posters for the French government. (Inventory #: 321536)