Post by: Rabenauge on December 21, 2019, 12:04:19 PM
Karl Ott 1914
AUSMARSCH / 1914 (march-out, departure). Single-sided, cast iron, blackened, 85.35 mm, 100.10 g. Vorzüglich (extremely fine).
From the three-windowed balcony of a peaked-roofed house, three women wave and strew flowers over eight ranks of soldiers marching on the street to left; two-line title inscription in exergue with stepped border left and right; artist's signature K･OTT along lower right edge.
Cf: Frankenhuis, M. 1919(?). Catalogue of Medals - Medalets and Plaques relative to the World War 1914 - 1919, p. 83: 622.
Cf: Salaschek, Sunhild. 1980. Katalog der Medaillen und Plaketten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts im französischen und deutschen Sprachraum in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, I (text): p. 276: no. 1154; II (Studien und Tafeln): pl. 84 (iron example).
Cf: Klose, Dietrich O. A. 2016. Europas Verderben 1914 1918: Deutsche und österreichische Medaillen auf den Ersten Weltkrieg, p. 38: 2.2 (bronze example).
Commemorates the departure of German armies toward Belgium and France, depicting a common scene in the heady first weeks of war enthusiasm.