Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 50 copies
A pencil drawing of the allegorical “Peace of Versailles” plaster statuette (German : Frieden von Versailles), made by Schrimpf, Weimar Republic, 1919. Now in the Dresden Museum of Military History.
A bronze dagger lies at the feet of a naked, strongly built man who is wearing a bronze steel helmet (Stahlelm) and whose hands are tied. This work is meant to be an allegory of the Treaty of Versailles, which was widely perceived as oppressive.
It also alludes to a popular myth, according to which an undefeated German army was stabbed in the back. Germany was disarmed, while the defeated nation was stripped of territory, population and economic resources.
