Frans Masereel
, Belgian, 1889-1972
Title
Remember!Date1946
MediumScreenprint
Credit LinePresented, Brian Lalor Print Collection, 2014
Object numberNGI.2014.98
DescriptionThomas Mann wrote that war intensified Masereel’s creativity, noting that his art fostered the development of "universal values central to the world and to humanity". In Nazi Germany Masereel’s art was classified ‘degenerate’. In the 1940s he produced important anti-war works, including 'Danse Macabre', 'Rage', and 'Remember!'. The powerful imagery ranges from the abstract: the globe so covered in graves its surface is no longer visible; to the disturbingly realistic: inmates of a concentration camp staring through barbed wire. This limited edition book (132 of 950) was published in Berne, Switzerland by Herbert Lang.