LUDWIG GIES: WWI Kunstmedaillen
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"ANDENKEN A.D. WELTKRIEG" 1915, cast bronze, 47 X 43.8mm. Unique
Obverse: War damaged refugee family of mother, father, and five children including the cat and birdcage all congregated around the brick cooking stove.
Reverse: German Picklehaube over an empty writing board adorned with an evergreen garland. Written below is ‘Andenken A.D. Weltkrieg’ (Memory to the World War).
There are only three of these pieces in existence. Ernsting has recorded an iron and a silver-plated bronze example in his reference book. This piece, in bronze, was only speculated as existing and was ‘not proven’ at the time of publication.
Obverse: War damaged refugee family of mother, father, and five children including the cat and birdcage all congregated around the brick cooking stove.
Reverse: German Picklehaube over an empty writing board adorned with an evergreen garland. Written below is ‘Andenken A.D. Weltkrieg’ (Memory to the World War).
There are only three of these pieces in existence. Ernsting has recorded an iron and a silver-plated bronze example in his reference book. This piece, in bronze, was only speculated as existing and was ‘not proven’ at the time of publication.
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Well that's what I get from the Ernsting book but then again, it is written in German so I could be mistaken. I do have several other Gies pieces where the variety is unique also...
If someone were to offer to translate, hint...hint, I could scan and send the listing from Ernsting...
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<< <i>Obverse: War damaged refugee family of mother, father, and five children including the cat and birdcage all congregated around the brick cooking stove. >>
Also note the father's backpack, in which he is carrying a large octopus that is trying to escape.
They originated under the impression of the events of first Great War years in the east of the Empire when Russian troops occupied East Prussia and were fought back in February 1915. Gies‘ artistic reaction dealt, (except the similar to WVZ 108 political examples), with the escape and suffering of the civil population. Stylistically, developments and occasional dates (1914, 1915) point to the origin within the first half of the year 1915 and refer very little to actual historical events at that time.
WVZ 112 – 1915
In memory of the world war (displaced)
Iron, two-sided cast, mounted, unchased
47:44 mm (heart-shaped with upper appendage)
signed, undated
Obverse:
Lightly convex field with multiple stepped, raised edge and lower segment; motif and lettering plastically raised. In the middle a cooker with ruinous, yet smoking chimney; on the right a young female with long hair, holding a swaddled baby, to the left of her two children sitting on the cookers brink, to her feet right a little girl and left a cat arching its back). On the left an old bearded man, a little child holding his left hand with both her hands. Signed in the segment with L*G.
Reverse:
Lightly convex field with multiple stepped, raised edge and lower segment; motif and lettering plastically raised. A craned quadrate, empty tablet, above a German Pickelhaube, the chinstrap entwined with a wreath, a garland of leaves lying across the tablet’s corners. Inside the garland-semicircle:
ANDENKEN A. * D.WELTKRIEG
Nachweis: Privatbesitz (1 Exemplar) This means: There is currently 1 piece known to the author, in private property.
The present example (the depicted one in Ernsting) is an imperfect, unchased cast with non-drilled mounting. The example of the collection Frankenhuis in Ramat Aviv, Kadman Numismatic Museum is no longer there (most probably lost). The depiction in Wolf (Wolf 1915, Kriegs und Trauerschmuck) shows a chased example with drilled mounting and fixed loop.
WVZ 112 a (Yours)- 1915
Same as WVZ 112
Bronze or silver, probably two-sided cast,
mounting with loop, measure not known
(probably ca. 47:44 mm, with upper appendage)
signed, undated
Ernstings only information on this piece is referring to a book/reference, or perhaps an advertising brochure by: Gies, “Kriegsmedaillen und Schmuckstücke”, die Plastik 6, München 1916, war-medals and pieces of jewelry, bronze and silver, (chapter) the sculpture 6, Munich 1916
Anhängsel „Flüchtlinge“: Silber
Pendant „refugees“: silver
Obviously in that reference this piece, in silver, was depicted (obverse only) and Ernsting used this depiction for the current reference also. Further he states: “Kein Exemplar in Bronze oder Silber nachgewiesen” So he never identified one of these (except the silver one depicted in the 1916 reference) and didn’t know if it existed. It obviously does as it is now in your collection.
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