{"id":15928,"date":"2017-07-31T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/?p=15928"},"modified":"2024-05-15T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:31:10","slug":"exhibit-hurra-ein-kriegsbilderbuchby-herbert-rikli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/exhibit-hurra-ein-kriegsbilderbuchby-herbert-rikli\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit: Hurra! Ein Kriegsbilderbuch\u2026by Herbert Rikli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Update<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent addition to the Military Collection is this first edition of a propagandized German illustrated children\u2019s book published in Stuttart by Loewe in 1915. It contains 23 leaves of pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Hurra!<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hurra!<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hurra!<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The book glorifies the German war effort through a little child\u2019s fantasy of vanquishing Germany\u2019s enemies and teaching German youth that their duty is to defend the homeland at all costs. The artist behind the pictures was Rikli (1880-1939), a Swiss illustrator and graphic designer .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dealer notes, \u201cThroughout the narrative, Willi, and later his Austrian friend, Franzl, heroically fend off soldiers many times their senior. The unsettling images depict the children in combat, marching, charging towards the enemy, firing at caricatured enemies, and throwing bombs at a city from a zeppelin. Willi is shown gleefully performing a soldier\u2019s duties. Rikli employs a variety of devices \u2014 racial caricatures of colonial troops and Willi\u2019s use of modern inventions like submarines and battleships, in contrast to the enemy employing rats, beetles, moles, grasshoppers, etc. \u2014 to belittle their French, English, and Russian enemies. The present book aptly encapsulates hostile European nationalism boiling over to the point that even children were targets of disturbing jingoism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work contrasts with Ye Berlyn Tapestrie<\/a> with images by John Hassall giving the British perspective to children about the brutality of the Germans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This entry was posted on Monday, July 31st, 2017<\/small> as an Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Update.
Entry re-created from archive.org, 5\/15\/24
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