Harvard Art Museums > M25436: This Is Nazi Brutality Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"This Is Nazi Brutality (Ben Shahn) , M25436,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/192758. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number M25436 People Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY) Title This Is Nazi Brutality Classification Prints Work Type poster, print Date 1942 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/192758 Physical Descriptions Technique Photolithograph Dimensions 96.2 x 71.76 cm (37 7/8 x 28 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: plate signed legend: center area of sheet, printer's ink, lithographed: This is Nazi Brutality / RADIO BERLIN. -- IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED:- / ALL MEN OF LIDICE - CZECHOSLOVAKIA - HAVE BEEN SHOT: / THE WOMEN DEPORTED TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP: / THE CHILDREN SENT TO APPRORIATE CENTERS-- THE / NAME OF THE VILLAGE WAS IMMEDIATELY ABOLISHED. / 6/11/42/115P [The subtext is printed on yellow bands, as if from a teletype or telegram.] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1994; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Standard Reference Number P.144 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive, Gift of Dolores S. Taller Copyright © Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 2002 Object Number M25436 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Stephen Lee Taller and Frances K. Pohl, Remembering Ben Shahn: Selections from the Stephen Lee Taller Collection, exh. cat., Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, California, 1998), p. 6 Exhibition History The Shape of Content: The Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/27/1999 - 03/26/2000 Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
