Jan Wysocki 1919
1914 - 1919 ("Death quadriga with dragon"). Single-sided cast bronze, medium-brown patina, 63.25 mm, 50.1 g. Gussfrisch (as cast). Very rare.
Death, holding scythe, drives four-horse chariot (quadriga) from left to right over calotte of the earth; bat-winged, barb-tailed dragon flies above; title year-dates in exergue formed by calotte; artist's monogram encircled intertwined IW lower left behind chariot; raised rim.
Cf: Bernhart, Max. 1915. Kriegsmedaillen bayerischer Künstler, pl. XX: no. 102 (early variant, with flying eagle and without date).
Cf: Schulman. 1919. La Guerre Européenne, Catalogue LXXV, p. 29: no. 251 (late variant, with dragon and date).
Cf: Frankenhuis, M. 1919(?). Catalogue of Medals - Medalets and Plaques Relative to the World War 1914 - 1919, p. 142: 1143 (early variant, without date).
Cf: Klose, Dietrich O. A. 2016. Europas Verderben 1914 1918: Deutsche und österreichische Medaillen auf den Ersten Weltkrieg, p. 270: 22.12 (late variant with dragon and date; inaccurate diameter measurement: 53 mm).Bernhart (1915) illustrates first variant of this medal, produced 1914/1915, with the German eagle instead of a dragon flying above chariot and without year-date. Klose (p. 269) also illustrates a related medal with Death sitting astride one of five horses riding down cowering humans, all beneath flying dragon .