Germany: 'Gegen Faschismus, Hunger und Krieg!' (Against Fascism, Hunger and War). KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, Communist Party of Germany) poster, Weimar Republic, 1918 - 1933

The Communist Party of Germany (German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, KPD) was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956. In the 1920s it was called the 'Spartacists', since it was formed from the Spartacus League.

The poster art of the KPD differs from and in some ways predates Soviet-style Socialist Realism, exhibiting more expressionist and constructivist influences in its simplicity.

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