D. Moore's poster "People's Court"

The original poster is in very good collectible condition. Size 325*485 mm. Literary and publishing department of the political administration of R.V.S.R. Guarantee of authenticity. Very rare.

Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov (worked under the pseudonym D. Moore or Dmitry Moore; 1883-1946) was a Russian and Soviet artist, master of graphics, one of the founders of the Soviet political poster, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1932).

He was born on October 22 [November 3], 1883 in Novocherkassk (now Rostov region) in the family of a mining engineer. In 1898, he moved with his parents to Moscow, where he graduated from a real school. He did not receive a systematic art education; in 1910 he attended the P. I. Kelin studio school. Initially, he worked in the Mammoth printing house. Since 1907, he published his cartoons in print.

While working in the Moscow magazine "Alarm Clock" (1907), the young artist Dmitry Orlov adopted the pseudonym Moore, since the character of the protagonist of Schiller's "Robbers" Karl Moore corresponded to the creative temperament of the master, passionate and consistent in his "romantically frenzied" desire for art, politically topical, actively influencing the viewer. Since 1914 he collaborated in the magazine "Novy Satyricon".

After the October Revolution, during the Civil War, he created propaganda posters ("Did you sign up as a volunteer?", "Wrangel is still alive, finish him off without mercy!", "Help!" and many others). Moore's satire was directed at religion, the White Movement, the Entente and the bourgeois system. Moore's posters were pasted up at the entrances to churches, ridiculed God, priests and Orthodox, and called for the seizure of church valuables used by believers in favor of the starving. Worked in ROSTA.

Orlov's anti-religious drawings were published in the magazine "The Godless at the Machine" and enjoyed great fame abroad. Illustrated "The Bible for Believers and Non-believers" by E. Yaroslavsky, the poem "Well" by V. V. Mayakovsky (1940). During the Great Patriotic War, he painted posters depicting the brutality of the Nazi occupiers. He died on October 24, 1946. He was buried in the columbarium of the Novodevichy Cemetery.