Birthday Pictures for 10 June 2009

Anthony Rooley, English lutenist accompanying Emma Kirkby, is 65 today.

Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator and author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, is 81 today.

Lebrecht June 2009 Newsletter

All the 20th century dictators put pen to paper in their lifetimes and became authors. The most famous books were Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’ and Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf ‘.

Lebrecht has built up a collection of posters, caricatures, and historic photographs of these totalitarian leaders, their rise to power and consequences of their doctrines on the history of the world. Our latest addition is a series of unusual posters from a private collection covering relations between Russia and Germany in World War II, Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, and Germany as an occupying power in the 1940s.

Together With The Soviet Union For Peace and Socialism. Day Of The Minor; Lets celebrate, Usti district (Sudetenland) 8 – 9 September 1951. (TKG Collection)

The Four Powers that defeated the Nazis. (TKG Collection)

Anti-Hitler cartoon in Le Rire 29th April, 1933. ‘Deutschland Uber Alles; Hitler- et maintenant, nous voici aussi populaires qu’en 1914′

National Socialist poster with Hitler’s portrait over map of Germany and annexed territories. Nazi credo: ‘Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer’ (‘One people, one empire, one leader’)

Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung), on the front of a Chinese stamp, 1966.

John Adams’ opera ‘Nixon in China’ directed by Peter Sellars at the English National Opera, London, with Adrian Thompson (Mao Tse-tung) and James Maddalena (Richard Nixon) – photographer Tristram Kenton

The Hundred Days by Mussolini-Forzano. Set design for Wellington’s tent. Designed by Vlastislav Hofman, produced by Karel Dostal at the National Theatre, Prague, 1934.

Joseph Stalin poster

The Last Days of Mussolini – comic strip book published in the late 1940s

‘Give Technology to the masses. Mastering technology is our military task.’ 1931 (Russian poster) (TKG Collection)

‘The Stalin Purge’, painting by Igor Obrosov. Igor Obrosov.

June anniversaries:

Isiaih Berlin, British philosopher, 100th birth anniversary 6th June, 2009

Thomas Paine , American Founding Father. 200th death anniversary 8 June 1809

Coronation of George V 22 June 1911

Charles Kingsley, English writer of the Water Babies, 90th birth anniversary 12 June 1819

Isaiah Berlin – Photo by Laurie Lewis

Coronation of George V

The Water Babies

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