Content note: Painting depicts nude dead or dying civilians and a burning settlement under aerial attack, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Jugoslavija (oil painting by Vladimir Ivanovic)
A reproduced oil painting shows a standing woman in a red headscarf with one hand to her forehead, flanked by two bare, limp human figures, a row of figures flying in from the left and black smoke over a burning settlement at the horizon, above the red title 'JUGOSLAVIJA'. The tell is the staging of suffering and destruction as imagery with no stated claim, source or remedy; the credit line names only the painter.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Unattributed issuer; artwork credited 'Oil painting by Vladimir Ivanovic'
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Yugoslavia
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Unattributed
- Leader
- Unattributed
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (issuer not identified; artist credited)
Artist Vladimir Ivanovic; issuer not printed. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-897.
Text on the object
JUGOSLAVIJA [credit line:] Oil painting by Vladimir Ivanovic
