Wang Wenfang - Kijk met vreugde naar de generatie van de Commune - 1970s

Original Chinese propaganda poster from 1975 'Look delighted at the generation of the commune' / 'Look delighted at the (young) generation of the Commune' (Xi kan gongshe xin yidai) by Wang Wenfang. Recorded in the Landsberger Collection under code number BG E17/218.
Condition B+: some edge creases. Image entirely intact. Fresh colors.
Shipping; rolled in a sturdy tube with track & trace.

A new group of sent-down youth is welcomed into the commune. Several are holding the Selected Works of Lenin, with more copies on the table on the right.

Stefan R. Landsberger (1955-2024) was trained as a sinologist at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Fascinated by totalitarian propaganda, he began collecting Chinese propaganda posters in the 1970s. His collection grew to become one of the largest private collections in the world. Having had access to these posters for such a long time, he came to see them as valuable primary sources for research on contemporary Chinese developments. For this reason, Landsberger used them as the basis for his Ph.D. research, which focused on materials published in the 1980s.

Wang Wenfang (1938-2020) was born in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province. In 1957, he joined the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Li Keran, Ye Qianyu, Jiang Zhaohe, Li Kuchan, and Zong Qixiang. After graduating in 1962, he was assigned to the Beijing Academy of Painting to become a professional painter. Five of his works were collected by the National Art Museum of China.