Air Raid Shelter WWII Bomber Netherlands

£550.00

Original vintage Dutch World War Two propaganda poster issued in Nazi occupied Netherlands - Zelfbescherming Bezoekt de tentoonstelling in de Haarlemsche Kegelbond Tempelierstraat 35 / Self-Protection Haarlem Bowling Club from 28 February to 5 March featuring colourful artwork by August Frans Hens (aka Guust Hens; 1907-1976) showing a terrified lady holding a child below three silhouettes of bombers set behind a large red silhouette of a bomber plane across the top of the image, a bomb shelter covered in green grass and surrounded by a barbed wire fence below. Published with approval of the Department of Public Information and the Arts by Advertising Agency Arend Meijer. Fair, staining on image, folded, minor foxing, restored tears.

Country

Netherlands

Year

1944

Style

War Posters

Artist

Guust Hens

Size (cm)

77.5x53