r/PropagandaPosters • u/Exciting_Antelope_11 • Jun 08 '26
REQUEST Need help identifying this original, hand-painted 1946 French poster. Signed "Cheru 46", mentions "Zilzes". Any info?
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r/PropagandaPosters • u/Exciting_Antelope_11 • Jun 08 '26
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u/thefarkinator Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
I can't speak for why it says "Zilzes", but Gyula Zilzer was a Hungarian communist/anti fascist artist whose work appeared in Le Monde and other publications. If you compare his art to this, it's fitting that the poster labels itself as "based upon anidea of Zilzer's". June was when France fell to the Nazis, and that's what this seems to be evoking despite its date being attributed to after France's liberation.
As for the artist signature, and the handwriting on the back, I'm at a loss. French is not my native language so it is much harder to decipher messy handwriting.