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Werner Egk: Abraxas Ballett- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

Item

Identifier: PA-0199
Title: Werner Egk: Abraxas Ballett- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
Creator: Kleinburg
Organization: Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin--Performances--Germany (East)
Date Created: 1982
Extent: 57 x 81
Description: This poster depicts a hollow bust of a male human head with a chipped nose. Out of the head emerges snakes which resemble brains, along with roses, stars, and pearls. The background is divided vertically into a sky with a rainbow and a green background with jagged black arrows pointing outward. Flowers flow toward the former, snakes and pearls toward the latter. The text is at the bottom in white on black, black on blue, and gray on yellow, with theater name torp left in black on pink. This poster advertises for the ballet "Abraxas" from Werner Egk.
Subject: Ballet--Performances--Germany (East)—Posters; Ballet; Egk, Werner, 1901-1983
Medium: Dance Posters
Spatial Coverage: Berlin

Item sets: East German Posters