[Soldiers playing music]

Date

• ca. 1914-ca. 1918

Summary

• The artist who painted the pictures on Cards 80 and 81 for the German Red Cross has transformed the front-soldier's life into an idyll of leisure: time to relax, write home, and sing songs -- and no battle as far as the eye can see. The reality of life in the trenchesis absent, as everything ugly about war has been removed from these scenes.