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Artist: MIHALY BIRÓ (1886-1948) Size: 24 7/8 x 37 3/8 in./63.2 x 95 cm Seidner, Budapest Népszava means "The Voice of the People," and it was the newspaper for Hungary's left wing. When Biró's most iconic image, the Red Man with Hammer, appeared on a poster in 1912 superimposed upon the image of a Népzsava front page there was no mistaking the meaning. This was big news. Bíro created several variants of this iconic work. This version is from 1914, at the breakout of the Great War, and features a phalanx of cartoonish Austro-Hungarian soldiers desperately trying to restrain Red Hammer Man with chains (echoing the Marxist slogan, "Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!") while Népszava's lettering is blocked out, censored, naturally, since "the first casualty of war is the truth." One of the great images in the history of political propaganda. (Propaganda, Politics)