In world war i, all sides used posters as tools to mobilize their populations for the war effort. This poster, published in vienna in 1918, shows a little girl reaching through a number "8" to deposit a coin into a pile below, an advertisement for the eighth war loan being raised by austria-hungary, germany’s chief ally in the war. The artist who designed the poster was alfred offner. Born in czernowitz in 1879, offner was a painter and graphic artist who was associated with the vienna secession, a group of avant-garde artists formed in 1897 that sought to break with the prevailing conservatism of late 19th-century austrian art. Charity; coins; girls; war bonds and funds; world war, 1914-1918. Date: 1918. Place of creation: Austria. Dimensions: 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 95 x 63 cm. Medium: photograph, prints. Collection: Library of Congress. Subscribe to the 8th War Loan WDL248
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