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Militarismus (Propagandaplakat)
Creator
László Moholy-NagyAmerican Photographer · 1895–1946
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- 1924
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
> The period after World War I in Germany was one of social and political upheaval. In January 1923 a vote by the Allied Reparations Commission determined that Germany had not fulfilled the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, and French troops occupied the Ruhr region. Miners and railroad workers went on strike, causing an economic crash. A state of emergency was declared by President Friedrich Ebert in September, but a loss in confidence in the government resulted in a chaotic situation in which extremist political groups sought to gain control of the country. The violent vision of László Moholy-Nagy’s *Militarism* may reflect this milieu, showing unevenly armed forces facing off against each other. At the end of 1923 stringent financial reforms were instituted to halt inflation. By 1924 the economy had stabilized. > > Katherine Ware, *László Moholy-Nagy*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), 21. © 1995 The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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