Leonid Pasternak, “Na pomoshch’ zhertvam voiny” (“The Wounded Soldier”), 1914
Via Matt Kelly: Leonid Pasternak, a post-impressionist painter and the father of the poet and novelist Boris, produced an immensely popular poster of a war victim that was designed for a charity drive in Moscow. The tsar hated the sketch and the “weakness” that he perceived in the soldier’s portrayal. However, the drawing was reproduced in numerous forms, selling millions of copies, and was used as an exhibit in the Bolshevik denunciation of the war 4 years later. It is discussed in this podcast at the 22:30 mark. His son spent his war as a clerk at a chemical works.
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