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  • 'Quelle chance que notre vieux bon Dieu soit avec nous 'Quelle chance que notre vieux bon Dieu soit avec nous

    (art) Made by: Beerts, Albert (artist) 1915

    image: A group of 7 wounded Germans, 5 infantry, 2 Uhlans point and grin at the latest disastrous casualty lists. All the figures are standing either with the aid of crutches or sticks, except for the main figure in the foreground - a double amputee who...

  • 'Donnez-nous aujourd'hui notre pain KKotidien 'Donnez-nous aujourd'hui notre pain KKotidien

    (art) Made by: Beerts, Albert (artist) 1915

    image: A central kneeling figure of an emaciated German infantryman, hands held together in prayer, eyes raised to heaven. He is surrounded by an empty army issue billy-can, one fish skeleton, one and a half bones and an empty box from Berlin. The whole...

  • Our Kultur Our Kultur

    (art) Made by: Beerts, Albert (artist) 1915

    image: A central figure of a red-faced, inanely grinning German army medic in bloodied field-grey uniform, holding a shovel in his left hand while pointing at a field of crosses in the distance. At his feet lie a bloody scythe and a rake. The whole is...

  • Devotion - Devouement [Devotion] Devotion - Devouement [Devotion]

    (art) Made by: Beerts, Albert (artist) 1915

    image: a small blonde French girl with blue bow in hair and nurse's uniform holds a miniature French poilu in her arms, his left hand outstretched. He wears blue and red kepi with matching tunic and red trousers of the wounded convalescent. The girl...

  • Le Kaiser avait raison: Notre avenir est dans l'eau [The Kaiser was right: Our Future is in the Water] Le Kaiser avait raison: Notre avenir est dans l'eau [The Kaiser was right: Our Future is in the Water]

    (art) Made by: Beerts, Albert (artist) 1915

    image: A central figure facing left to right; an overfed German infantryman with inane, childlike grimace, up to his thighs in a waterlogged trench. He shakes his hands of water. The butt of his rifle to the right of the composition, is inserted in...

  • 'Du cuivre pour notre Kaiser, S.V.P 'Du cuivre pour notre Kaiser, S.V.P

    (art) Made by: Beerts, Albert (artist) 1915

    image: A central figure amongst a group of seven German infantrymen pushes a barrow with his right hand and which supports a bust of the Kaiser. Around his neck are tied two brass candlesticks, one copper pan, and in his left pocket an upturned metal...

  • La Soupe La Soupe

    (art) Made by: Beerts, Albert (artist) 1915

    image: Two starving German soldiers. To the left a cadaverous figure with blue lips, red nose and regulation cloth covered picklehaube tightens his belt while facing the viewer. To the right a similar figure facing right but wearing regulation forage cap...