Special exhibition at the Munich City Museum

Typography of Terror exhibition at the Munich City Museum "MünchenVom" 11.05. 11/11/2012 to present the Munich City Museum has a special exhibition entitled "Typography of terror". The focus is on posters that arrived in Munich between 1933 and 1945 stops. When the "Munich" Munich offered the Nazis from the beginning an ideological center. As an example reflects this importance reflected on posters, which have seen the person of Hitler, the power of the Nazi regime and the promises of the "national community" into the picture. The National Socialism took over almost all of the posters, the function of political posters, which led the public the goals and values ​​of those in power constantly in mind. They were consciously used for the staging of dictatorship and ideology should make clear, not least effective.
The exhibition displays over 100 posters from various fields such as politics, culture and economy, which hung between 1933 to 1945, Munich, and was generally well designed and there were printed. The posters tell a lot about the historical context in which they arose, developments and structures of the Nazi regime and the political and social ideals, they should represent. They provide information on the representation of the Nazi dictatorship and the inextricably related violence and destruction.
Typography of Terror exhibition at the Munich City Museum Münch final question of the artistic means by which the propagandist statements were conveyed in the poster, will play a central role. Here, the typography plays as a reflection of ideological beliefs is as important as the coordinated design of text and image. In all, the visual appearance of the Corporate Design of National Socialism in the poster medium is tangible. Through a critical contextualization and presentation of posters illustrates the manipulative function and puts the power of images and broken.
The rise of the Nazi party as the state is explained by the Nazi propaganda poster alone nor the approval of National Socialism in wide circles of the German population. Rather, the posters for the establishment and consolidation of the Nazi dictatorship one - albeit important - component Mediated Transfer of many opinions expressed in the posters and pictures should moods created National Socialist ideas are anchored in the public consciousness. Emotions and violence were the mainstays of a propaganda concept that the medium of the poster attributed an important role.
Typography of Terror exhibition at the Munich City Museum MünchenIn the Nazi "war time" before 1933 had a graphic poster like Felix and Hans Albert Schweitzer determined with their martial and imaginative language emphasizes the appearance of the NSDAP significantly. With the change in the self-portrayal of the militant "fighting party" for consensus "national and state party" this rhetoric became less important for the visual presentation of the dictatorship. Established as a graphic designer Ludwig Jacob and Wilhelm Engelhardt represented from now on the official party line.
During the war years, the boundaries of the Nazi propaganda became apparent. Energetic than ever before resorted to propaganda means in addition to the powers to police and legal measures to discipline its own people. The poster comes to light which is apparently against the war, military and economic situation worsening. Not only a deterioration in color quality, but in particular, a drastic reduction in the total poster production documenting the end of the "Third Reich".
The exhibition catalog published by Kehrer Verlag of "Typography of terror appears. Posters in Munich 1933 to 1945 "with numerous illustrations and 336 pages.
Come and visit the special typography of terror in the period from 11.05. until 11.11.2012 in Munich City Museum in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.