103021 | GERMANY. Field Hospital uniface cast bronze Medal.

103021  |  GERMANY. Field Hospital uniface cast bronze Medal. Issued 1914. "Feldlazarett" (66mm, 69.24 g). By Ludwig Gies for Carl Poellath in Schrobenhausen.

 

Tents bearing the Red Cross on knoll, with injured soldiers on gurneys placed in foreground and being carried to a tent // Blank. Edge: C. POELLATH SCHROBENHAUSEN.

 

Klose 14.1; The Art of Devastation –; Frankenhuis 1375; Jones, The Dance of Death 21; Ernsting 57; The Medal 13 (Autumn 1988) p. 65 (fig. 22). Essentially as Cast. Tan-brown surfaces, with a few spots. Very rare and impressive.

 

Ex David B. Simpson Collection.

 

Contrasting to some of his other medals, in which the soldier is shown in a monolithic, meaningless nature, Gies here takes more of a solemn view of the struggles, with Ernsting in The Medal writing that "...his imagery becomes contemporary again when it involves the misery caused by the war and the tragic fate of those affected by it. No neat nurses look after the wounded when their shattered bodies are carried to the tents of the field hospital."

 

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