Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 50 copies
A pencil drawing of the Comrades / Kameraden bronze relief.
The dramatic sculpture depicts a standing caped man, defiant in his expression, supporting his clearly grievously wounded comrade-in-arms who is unconscious and rests in his friends arms.
The original sculpture was commissioned by Albert Speer in 1940, intended for inclusion in a 240 meter frieze at a proposed Soldatenhalle in Berlin. A large plaster cast was displayed in the Great German Art Exhibition in 1940, Room 2. Charlotte Rohrbach had made studio photographs of this, which were published as postcards in 1941.
Along with 23 other reliefs, it was intended to decorate one of the structures of the planned east-west axis, executed in green granite over a total area of 10 by 240 meters - a gigantic version of François Rude's reliefs at the Arc de Triomphe.
