Poster of the Kukryniks "Young Fritz", 1942

An original and rare poster of the Great Patriotic War in excellent collectible condition. Size 570*870 mm. Artists of Kukryniksy, editor E. Pavolotskaya. Circulation 50,000 pcs. The State publishing house "Art". From an old domestic collection. It is practically not found in such preservation. Guarantee of authenticity.

Kukryniksy is a creative collective of Soviet graphic artists and painters, which included full members of the USSR Academy of Arts (1947), People's Artists of the USSR (1958), Heroes of Socialist Labor Mikhail Kupriyanov (1903-1991), Porfiry Krylov (1902-1990) and Nikolai Sokolov (1903-2000). The pseudonym "Kukryniksy" is made up of the first syllables of the surnames KUpriyanov and Krylov, as well as the first three letters of the name and the first letter of the surname of Nikolai Sokolov. A similar example of the creation of a pseudonym is the pseudonym of the creative collective of Soviet writers "Grivady Gorpozhaks", however, for fine art this is a unique phenomenon in history. Three artists worked by the method of collective creativity. The greatest fame was brought to them by numerous masterfully executed cartoons and caricatures, as well as book illustrations created in a characteristic cartoon style.

A significant moment in his work was the military poster "We will mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy!". He appeared on the June streets of Moscow one of the first — immediately after the attack of Nazi Germany on the USSR. The Kukryniks went through the whole war: their leaflets accompanied Soviet soldiers all the way to Berlin. In addition, the cycle of posters "Windows of TASS" was very popular.