Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 50 copies
A pencil drawing of the bronze statue Memorial to the Infantry Regiment Nr. 30 in Saarlouis, a kneeling mourning Warrior, created by German sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider (6 June 1866 – 23 September 1942) in 1909.
A Memorial commemorating the German-Franco War fourty years earlier, - also named “Dreißiger Denkmal”.
The youthful warrior is depicted in a mourning pose with his head bowed and his knees on his left. With his upper body bent forward and his eyes lowered, the warrior grips the pommel of his sword in his left hand, while his right hand holds a wreath of oak leaves over his raised knee. An animal skin hangs draped over his right thigh.
Following the ideal figure of ancient models, the naked, athletic body of the warrior is muscularly modeled. The figure rests on a stone plinth on a cube-shaped block of shell limestone, which in turn is placed on a more recent stone pedestal. On the four sides of the base of the monument from the time of construction were carved more than 100 names of Hermsdorfers who died in the First World War with their dates of death, sorted according to the war year of their death.
A plaster copy was displayed at the “Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung”, 1912. It was also depicted in the catalog of foundry Lauchhammer Bildguss, 1938.
Seven identical bronze casts were made for memorials in other cities: for the city of Güstrow in 1910, Koblenz in 1919, Landsberg/ Warthe in 1919, for a graveyard in Lüdenscheid in 1920,
Chemnitz 1922, Crivitz in 1922 and for Berlin in 1922.
