Content note: Republican Spanish poster showing the Nationalist commander as a skull in German uniform with a swastika, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
El Generalísimo (UGT Sindicato Profesional de Bellas Artes poster)
Colour poster of a giant figure with a skull for a face under a spiked helmet, in a grey greatcoat with a white swastika, over the title 'el generalisimo'; three small rosy-cheeked figures, an officer, a man in a suit and a priest, carry the end of his long red cape. The tell: the opposing commander is drawn as Death in German uniform served by army, money and church, which asserts who he works for in one picture instead of arguing it.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1937
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid, Delegación de Propaganda y Prensa (Republican Spain), with the UGT Sindicato Profesional de Bellas Artes; artist Pedrero; printed by Rivadeneyra, Madrid
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Second Spanish Republic
- Leader
- Francisco Largo Caballero
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Spanish Civil War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Commons public-domain tag; URAA status not cleared; hosted on owner decision October 2, 2026
Wikimedia Commons, File:El Generalísimo.jpg (author unknown or anonymous per the file page unless stated in the entry notes).
Text on the object
Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked
el generalisimo JUNTA DELEGADA DE DEFENSA DE MADRID DELEGACION DE PROPAGANDA Y PRENSA PEDRERO RIVADENEYRA U.G.T.-MADRID SINDICATO PROFESIONALES BELLAS ARTES. U.G.T.
The Generalissimo; Madrid Defence Junta, Propaganda and Press Delegation; Pedrero; Rivadeneyra UGT, Madrid; Fine Arts Professionals' Union, UGT
Printer's and issuer's lines read from a reduced image. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.
