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VERDEN -1917 (And the crashed plane on the Rhine)
Karl Xaver Goetz • Jewelry, 1917
Description of the artwork «VERDEN -1917 (And the crashed plane on the Rhine)»
VERDEN -1917
(And the crashed plane on the Rhine)
1917, Blackened Iron, Satirical Medal, 57.80 mm, 75.20 g, Thick Planchet, Frankenhayes 1474
Obverse: Death in English cap and smoking pipe, bent and weathered Marianne in mortal warfare, with her hair loose and wearing a Liberty cap (France). On the border of Verdun 1917. A little exercise.
Reverse: A vignette consisting of a human heart under a Phrygian hood, pierced by a pin and bleeding, with Clemenceau's head. Also a blazing torch of hatred, myopia glasses, and a dying laurel branch. In the exergue "And the ruhiga flies on the Rhine" (And the Rhine flows quietly). K - G to the left and right of the vignette.
(And the crashed plane on the Rhine)
1917, Blackened Iron, Satirical Medal, 57.80 mm, 75.20 g, Thick Planchet, Frankenhayes 1474
Obverse: Death in English cap and smoking pipe, bent and weathered Marianne in mortal warfare, with her hair loose and wearing a Liberty cap (France). On the border of Verdun 1917. A little exercise.
Reverse: A vignette consisting of a human heart under a Phrygian hood, pierced by a pin and bleeding, with Clemenceau's head. Also a blazing torch of hatred, myopia glasses, and a dying laurel branch. In the exergue "And the ruhiga flies on the Rhine" (And the Rhine flows quietly). K - G to the left and right of the vignette.
