Hugo Gellert

Free World or Slave World
1942

A colorful print divided into two distinct halves. On the left, a stylized depiction of a family with a man carrying a child on his shoulders and a woman beside him holding a sheaf of wheat and a basket, set against a background of green fields and blue mountains. On the right, a dark brown background with a large black swastika breaking through the ground, with a small figure sowing seeds in a barren field below. The contrasting imagery suggests themes of prosperity versus destruction.

A colorful print divided into two distinct halves. On the left, a stylized depiction of a family with a man carrying a child on his shoulders and a woman beside him holding a sheaf of wheat and a basket, set against a background of green fields and blue mountains. On the right, a dark brown background with a large black swastika breaking through the ground, with a small figure sowing seeds in a barren field below. The contrasting imagery suggests themes of prosperity versus destruction.

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Date
1942

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet (Folded): 20 × 16in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm) Sheet: 20 × 32in. (50.8 × 81.3 cm) Image: 15 1/8 × 13 1/8in. (38.4 × 33.3 cm)

Accession number
92.123

Series
Century of the Common Man

Edition
Ed. 54

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Hugo Gellert, courtesy Mary Ryan Gallery, New York

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