Kriegsgefangene. Hundert Steinzeichnungen von Hermann Struck.

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

STRUCK, HERMANN

printer

Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen)

Place

Berlin

Publication

1916

Description

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.

summary

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).

pp. (8), 3-27, (3), 99. Light wear. Original gilt-titled boards, scuffed. Folio.

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