Moshe Raviv-Vorovchik (Moi Ver) — “General Fire Drill and Competitions”, Tel-Aviv, 1942. Lithographic poster, approx. 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6 inches), by the Bauhaus-trained modernist painter, photographer and graphic designer who studied in Dessau under Paul Klee and Kandinsky, later worked in Paris and immigrated to Eretz Israel in the early 1930s; his works were exhibited in retrospective exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and he survived thanks to his immigration while much of European Jewish culture was destroyed during the Holocaust. Rare vintage Israel Bauhaus Palestine Eretz Israel print produced during World War II announcing: “General Drill and Competitions, Sukkot 5703, of the Tel-Aviv Fire Brigade, Army and Air Forces, at the Stadium, Tuesday 29.IX.42, 3 p.m., proceeds dedicated to the Firemen’s House.” Visually, the poster shows three monumental stylized firefighters advancing diagonally, holding a hose spraying water toward large orange flames, with small fire engines, ladders and city silhouettes in the background, rendered in flat geometric silhouettes and strong contrasts of black figures, orange fire, blue-grey sky and white water stream, a typical Bauhaus modernist composition integrating typography as structure and presenting the firefighter as a heroic civic figure similar to the pioneer worker, symbolizing organized Hebrew society, discipline, protection and urban development. Historically, the poster reflects wartime Palestine under the British Mandate in 1942 amid fears of bombing and invasion, where civil-defense training and public institutions became part of nation-building, expressing a functioning modern Hebrew city continuing to develop while Europe was in catastrophe — historical document, modernist artwork, civic propaganda, Holocaust-era print, museum-exhibited artist.
rare vintage Israel poster פוסטר ישראל וינטג נדיר Bauhaus באוהאוס Palestine פלסטין Eretz Israel ארץ ישראל 1942 WWII מלחמת העולם השניה Tel Aviv תל אביב fire brigade מכבי אש civil defense הגנה אזרחית Moi Ver Moshe Raviv Vorovchik מוי ור משה רביב וורובצ׳יק modernism מודרניזם Zionism ציונות Yishuv הישוב Hebrew society חברה עברית emergency services שירותי חירום propaganda poster פוסטר תעמולה lithograph ליטוגרפיה graphic design עיצוב גרפי modernist poster פוסטר מודרניסטי historic print הדפס היסטורי collectible poster פריט אספנות Israeli art אמנות ישראלית city building בניין עיר national identity זהות לאומית Holocaust era תקופת השואה British Mandate המנדט הבריטי public institutions מוסדות ציבור Bauhaus style סגנון באוהאוס firefighters כבאים urban life חיים עירוניים vintage advertising פרסום היסטורי museum exhibited הוצג במוזיאון
