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  • Mélancolie [Melancholy] Mélancolie [Melancholy]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Georges 1915

    image: To the left of centre of the composition, the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II and his son, Crown Prince Wilhelm (Little Willy), both in profile looking to the right. The Crown Prince is in the foreground, seated upon a milestone which bears the legend...

  • Vitikültur Vitikültur

    (art) Made by: Bagnard, J F(?)

    image: A central image of two drunken German soldiers. The figure to the left in full uniform, picklehaube, unbuttoned tunic collar, a pair of ammunition pouches, heavy jackboots, holds an upturned and empty wine bottle in his right hand and a half-full...

  • Les Atrocités Allemandes (34) [German Artocities - 34] Les Atrocités Allemandes (34) [German Artocities - 34]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Jean-Gabriel 1915-04

    image: Four German soldiers - three infantrymen and an officer - surround a father and child; the father facing the viewer covers his face with both hands, his terrified daughter clings to his right side. She gazes at the officer, his back to the viewer...

  • Les Atrocités Allemandes (33) [German Artocities - 33] Les Atrocités Allemandes (33) [German Artocities - 33]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Jean-Gabriel 1915-04

    image: To the centre of the composition, a terrified boy - a cowman - stands between his two German captors. The infantryman on his right holds him by the scruff of his neck. The boy faces two German officers, presumably for questioning. His face and...

  • Les Atrocités Allemandes (38) [German Artocities - 38] Les Atrocités Allemandes (38) [German Artocities - 38]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Jean-Gabriel 1915-04

    image: To the left of the composition, on the three steps of an estaminet lies a dead French priest, spread eagled, his head thrown back so that only his neck is visible to the viewer. His surplice is rent open to his abdomen, the bent and curling...

  • Les Atrocités Allemandes (37) [German Artocities - 37] Les Atrocités Allemandes (37) [German Artocities - 37]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Jean-Gabriel 1915-04

    image: In the centre of the composition sits a captured Belgian soldier stripped to the waist upon a block or small crate. He is held by his head, arms and legs by three ape-like German soldiers. One, kneeling to the left, holds his ankles while his...

  • Les Atrocités Allemandes (36) [German Artocities - 36] Les Atrocités Allemandes (36) [German Artocities - 36]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Jean-Gabriel 1915-04

    image: To the centre left of the composition, advancing towards the viewer, an elderly bourgeois (the magistrate) formally dressed and his young daughter, completely naked. Their arms are upraised; his face looks heavenward, hers stares ahead with an...

  • Les Atrocités Allemandes (35) [German Artocities - 35 ] Les Atrocités Allemandes (35) [German Artocities - 35 ]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Jean-Gabriel 1915-04

    image: To the left of centre of the composition a group of three German soldiers. Two, facing the viewer hold a kneeling priest by the arms and the back of the head. The third soldier, his back toward the viewer, but his face in profile, holds a knife...

  • Les Atrocités Allemandes (39) [German Artocities - 39] Les Atrocités Allemandes (39) [German Artocities - 39]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Jean-Gabriel 1915-05

    image: In the foreground, to the left of the composition, a crucified Canadian soldier. He hangs, in profile, left facing right on a Tau cross (crux commissa or St Anthony's Cross). He is naked apart from his torn trousers; his head is bowed, his hands...

  • Les Atrocités Allemandes (17) [German Artocities - 17 ] Les Atrocités Allemandes (17) [German Artocities - 17 ]

    (art) Made by: Domergue, Jean-Gabriel 1915-03

    image: To the left of centre, an old man of 86 is slumped dead in an armchair. His legs are together, outstretched, his left arm resting on the chair arm, his right dangling to the floor. His fingers lie in a pool of blood which dribbles down from his...

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