Kriegsgefangene. Hundert Steinzeichnungen von Hermann Struck.

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STRUCK, HERMANN

Kriegsgefangene. Hundert Steinzeichnungen von Hermann Struck.

Text in German by Felix von Luschan. <<INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY STRUCK>> on title-page to John Cameron. Bookplate of Baron Cornelius Verheyden de Lancey. Photographic illustrations within the text followed by 100 full-page portraits. pp. (8), 3-27, (3), 99. Light wear. Original gilt-titled boards, scuffed. Folio.

Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen) 1916

Est: $400 - $600

In this spectacular monograph, artist Hermann Struck, who was serving in the Imperial German army as a translator, liaison officer and military artist, sketched the faces of one hundred prisoners of war in the German camps. Among the French, British, Belgian and Russian inmates were also included soldiers from the British Empire (mostly from India) as well as the French Empire (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Senegal).