Otto Griebel - "Factory Workers on Their Way Home" - circa 1922.
Watercolor over pencil on smooth wove paper. Hard Times: Germany 1920s – 1930s - Series
Otto Griebel - "Hippodrome in St. Pauli" - circa 1923.
Otto Griebel was a German artist who was born in 1895. He was the co-founder of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany & the New Dresden Secession.
Otto Griebel - Self Portrait
In 1920, he founded together with the musician Otto Kunze a puppet theatre (glove puppets) in Dresden. Its repertoire included a puppet cabaret, an adaptation of Faust and of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin entitled Der Lohntütengrien. Besides political satire, he cultivated “nonsense”, for which, as a former Dadaist, he had an affinity. The verses of his friend, Joachim Ringelnatz provided material for this part of the program.
In 1933, he was arrested by the Gestapo and his paintings were branded as degenerate art.
His painting (below) "Child at a Table" branded as degenerate art, was one of the artworks found in the 2012 Munich artworks discovery (Munich Art Hoard).
Degenerate Art also was the title of a 1937 exhibition held by the Nazis in Munich, consisting of 650 modernist artworks that the Nazis had taken from museums, that were poorly hung alongside graffiti and text labels mocking the art and the artists.
Joseph Goebbels views the Degenerate Art Exhibition.
The collection of "Degenerate Art" contained Old Masters as well as Impressionist, Cubist, and Expressionist paintings, drawings and prints by artists including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Franz Marc, Marc Chagall, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Otto Dix, Edvard Munch, Gustave Courbet, Max Liebermann, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee, among many others.
"Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "The Internationale" have almost identical opening melodies ("Arise! Ye prisoners of starvation" and "Oh, I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy").Happy July 4, everyone!
Työn orjat, sorron yöstä nouskaa,
maan ääriin kuuluu kutsumus.
Nyt ryskyin murtuu pakkovalta,
tää on viime ponnistus.
Pohja vanhan järjestelmän horjuu.
Orjajoukko taistohon!
Alas lyökää koko vanha maailma,
ja valta teidän silloin on!
Tää on viimeinen taisto,
rintamaamme yhtykää!
niin huomispäivänä kansat
on veljet keskenään!
MWW Artwork of the Day (5/1/22)
Otto Griebel (German, 1895-1972)
The Internationale (c. 1929-30)
Oil on canvas, 123 x 198 cm.
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
"The Internationale" is an outstanding example of proletarian revolutionary art. The painter filled the canvas with a veritable army of workers of different nationalities, standing on an equal footing, who sing the "Internationale." Griebel, though an active member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) since 1919, waived the usual communist symbolism. The picture rather illustrates the ideal of the party and the country moving forward together in harmony with the world proletariat: Only the international solidarity of the workers can overcome the prevailing abuses. Thus the picture encourages class struggle. Griebel painted himself into the picture. He demonstrates the solidarity between artists and workers, by placing his hand on the shoulder of the miner standing before him.
It’s the traditional Labor Day show about, yknow, labor! Now an expected part of WPRB’s Laborwave programming on actual Labor Day. This year we started off the broadcast day with the Internationale at 7 freaking am what was I thinking.
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Pete Seeger - The Internationale (Live)
The Coctails - Working Holiday
DJ speaks over Coco Briaval - L'Internationale
Gang of Four - Return the Gift
The Shifters - Work/Life, Gym Etc (demo)
Naked Spots Dance - Crescendo
Almanac Singers - Union Train
Chelsea - Right To Work
The Go-Betweens - Draining the Pool for You
DJ speaks over David Perkins - The Internationale
The Proletariat - Scab
Electric Guitars - Work
Girlsperm - Good Job
Huun-Huur-Tu - Tuvan Internationale
Parliament - Children Of Production
Trees - While the Iron Is Hot
Qlowski - Lotta Continua
Infesto - Obligacion Laboral
Ted Wallace and his Orchestra - Gotta Go to Work Again
DJ speaks over Harmonie Orchester - Die Internationale
X - Revolution
Dead Kennedys - Take This Job and Shove It
De Cylinders - Looking for Work
Carolina Twins - A Change in Business All Around
Sweet Honey In the Rock - More Than a Paycheck
The Chisel - Class Oppression
Swan Arcade - Coal not Dole
DJ speaks over Hanns Eisler - Die Internationale
Chumbawamba - Fitzwilliam
The Apostles - Workers' Autonomy, Pt. 1
Black Flag - I've Had It
Woody Guthrie - Miner's Song
PLP - Power to the Working Class
Articles of Faith - What We Want Is Free
DJ speaks over Area - L'Internazionale
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Government Center
Tom Paxton - A Job of Work
Nape Neck - Job Club
Florence Reece - Which Side Are You On?
DJ speaks over Työväen Lauluja Kokoelma - Internationale
Victor Jara - Manifiesto
The New Singers - The Internationale
This concludes Kilowog's 4th of July music festival. Thanks poozers fer enjoyin' some wonderful songs.
The United States is an oppressive, genocidal, an' imperialist nation, but it ain't no good to say that unless we got an alternative. Luckily, we do. Humanism, leftism, socialism, an' communism lay out the principles of ethics, society, economics, an' politics. We can make a better world, a world where it ain't about the USA, but about US, the people.
There's one last song, an' it's a song that's been translated inta languages all over th' world 'cause it's truly an international rallying cry. It's been translated inta' English many times, but Billy Bragg wrote my favorite translation, so here's Billy Bragg singin' the Internationale.
Born on 5 September 1949 in Dublin, Ireland, Patrick "Pat" McQuaid is an Irish former road racing cyclist who served as the president of the Union Cycliste Internationale from 2005 to 2013.