Germany, Third Reich. A Copy of Abgelöst, by D. Graff, after Herbert Schnürpel Archive Ritter Commandeur des Heligen Geistes

Ritter Commandeur des Heligen Geistes

the pinback maker marked “WILHELM DEUMER

then promoted to the rank of Sergeant on April 23

exhibiting scattered staining and spotting

the frame of the cross with a striking patina

Germany, Third Reich. A Copy of Abgelöst, by D. Graff, after Herbert Schnürpel Archive Ritter Commandeur des Heligen Geistes(lbind). A superb copy of Abgelst (Relieved or Replaced), presented in oil on board, featuring a somber depiction of a group of Heer soldiers, some wearing Stahlhelme while others display bloody dressings from battlefield wounds, as they depart from a smoke or fog ridden battlefield, their neutral expressions betraying a conditioned indifference to the horrors of the battlefield as they appear to advance on the viewer, the lower right corner bearing a