Hans Schwegerle. 1918.
IM — SOL- / DATEN / HEIM (in the soldiers' recreation center) (obv.); FVER DIE/ ･SOLDATENHEIM- / SPENDE / 19 — 18 (in the soldiers' recreation center) (rev.). Cast bronze, light-brown patina, 58.32 mm, 69.53 g. Cast model. Gussfrisch (as-cast), perfect condition.
Obverse: Soldier, full length, in
Feldmütze, uniform, and boots, right foot on step, head lowered to his left, plays guitar; three-line title inscription as indicated on either side of figure; artist's signature H Schwegerle on step beneath soldier's right foot.
Reverse: Four-line title inscription; handwritten in (barely legible) script below text
Modell (indicates this example was a casting model as guide for production and finishing of further examples).
Cf: Hasselmann, Wolfgang. 2000. Hans Schwegerle - Medaillen und Plaketten, p. 176: 159.
Cf: Klose, Dietrich O. A. 2016. Europas Verderben 1914 1918: Deutsche und österreichische Medaillen auf den Ersten Weltkrieg, p 310, 24.17 (example in iron).This example from the estate of H. Schwegerle, then passing to the collection of Wolfgang Hasselmann, author of the monograph cited above. As a casting model, it is slightly larger than production casts (57.5 mm).
38 examples produced in bronze, 12 in iron, 2 in silver, as one of a series of medals to be given for donations to the Bayerischer Landesausschuß für Soldatenheime München (Bavarian National Board for Soldiers' Recreation Centers, Munich) (Hasselmann, p. 176 - 178).
