Schatzkammer der Revolution - Russische Kinderbücher von 1920-1935: Bücher aus bewegten Zeiten

Postmen, ice-cream sellers and firefighters become the princes, magicians and heroes of Soviet children’s books from the 1920s and 1930s. The illustrations draw on Futurism and Constructivism, bringing avant-garde visual forms into stories for young readers after the October Revolution. Artists including Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky and Vladimir Lebedev worked alongside writers such as Daniil Kharms, Samuil Marshak and Korney Chukovsky. Children’s publishing provided a way for artists to reach a broad audience outside the censorship applied to other work. Reproductions of the original illustrations appear alongside texts and poems presented in German for the first time. Three introductory essays explore the Soviet setting in which these books were made, and a foreword by Philip Pullman introduces the collection.