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This category is for War artists whose main topical focus was the first World War. Many of these artists were official artists for their respective governments, but some have produced work post-War. Contents
Yale Centre for British Art A photograph similar to Gassed of British troops blinded by poison gas during the Battle of Estaires, 1918. The painting measures 231.0 by 611.1 centimetres (7 ft 6.9 in × 20 ft 0.6 in). The composition includes a central group of eleven soldiers depicted nearly life-size.
Self-Portrait as a Soldier, or Selbstbildnis als Soldat, is an Expressionist oil-on-canvas painting by the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kirchner created this self-depiction in 1915, following his medical discharge from military service during the First World War. [1] The artwork measures 69 centimetres in height by 61 centimetres in ...
[1] The U.S. Army War Art Unit was established in late 1942; and by the spring of 1943, 42 artists were selected. In May 1943, Congress withdrew funding the unit was inactivated. [3] The Army's Vietnam Combat Art Program was started in 1966. Teams of soldier-artists created pictorial accounts and interpretations for the annals of army military ...
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash.Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II. A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record.
The Doctor (1916) (Art.IWM ART 725). At the outbreak of World War I, Nevinson joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit, which his father had helped to found.From 13 November 1914, Nevinson spent nine weeks in France with the FAU and the British Red Cross Society, mostly working at a disused goods shed by Dunkirk rail station known as the Shambles.
Images of the Army: The Military in British Art 1815–1914. Manchester: University Press. Knott, Richard, The Sketchbook War. The History Press, 2013. Sillars, Stuart (1987). Art and Survival in First World War Britain. Basingstoke: Macmillan. Holme, Charles. The war depicted by distinguished British artists (The Studio Ltd., 1918).
Dead Germans in a Trench is a 1918 oil painting by Irish artist William Orpen, made during the First World War.It was inspired by the battlefield of the Battle of the Somme that Orpen had visited in 1917, and depicts the bodies of two dead German soldiers sinking into the mud at the bottom of a trench.