Chez Les Turcs
Chez Les Turcs
By Hermann-Paul
La Baïonnette, Issue #2 Têtes de Turcs, 15 July 1915

Chez Les Turcs

Year: 1915

Description: In the Turkish homeland and looking at a dead Prussian Soldier. One Turk says to the other, "How well the Allies Shoot!"

Provenance: La Baïonnette, Issue #2 Têtes de Turcs, 15 July 1915



A View of the Marne
A View of the Marne
By Hermann-Paul
Private Collection

A View of the Marne

Year: 1915

Description: In 1914, the German advance on Paris was halted on the Marne. After the French beat them back, the line consolidated in the east where both sides dug in for the stalemate which would characterize the Western Front.

With the conflict at a safe distance from Paris, civilians had an opportunity to visit the battle field. Hermann-Paul visited this moonscape several times starting in the fall of 1914 where he documented the battle's aftermath.

This pencil drawing was embellished with ink and water color. It was sold by the Hermann-Paul estate without documentation. It probably dates to the spring on 1915 because the battle field is free of bodies and the tourist has a clean path upon which to walk.

Provenance: Private Collection



Berger-le-vrault
Berger-le-vrault
By Hermann-Paul
unknown

Berger-le-vrault

Year: 1916

Description: At the beginning of the Great War, Germany attacked France throught neutral Belgium. The campaign was waged with more than bullets. A propaganda war erupted in which the Allies depicted German atrocity while the Germans depicted cheerful lives under their administrative authority. Here, Hermann-Paul rebuts those claims. A torn landscape is masked by an artificial background. A German solider poses for a photograph with a young Belgian girl. He says to her, "Laugh or I'll have you shot!"

Provenance: unknown



L'Epouvantail
L'Epouvantail
By Hermann-Paul
La Baionnette n°70 du 2 Novembre 1916

L'Epouvantail

Year: 1916

Description: Barbed wire was invented in the US in 1867. It was designed to contain livestock within a rancher's boundaries. It was soon adapted by the world's militaries as a defensive mechanism. In the First World War, many a soldier was killed when he became tangled in wire. In this piece, a dead German infantry man was unable to fall to his final resting place. Crows flee as their dark bodies silhouette against an ominous sky. Hermann-Paul entitled this piece "L'Epouvantail" or the Scare Crow. Hermann-Paul was 51 when the war erupted in Europe. It's unclear from whence he witnessed the imagery that he relied upon for his depiction of the war. For his work, he generally relied on first hand observation so while he may have worked from photographs, it's likely he neared the front or toured abandoned battlefields.

Provenance: La Baionnette n°70 du 2 Novembre 1916



La Guirlande
La Guirlande
By Hermann-Paul
La Guirlande

La Guirlande

Year: 1920

Description: This is crayon illustration for La Guirlande (The Garland), a short-lived quarterly art review which ran from 1919 to 1921. Here, an elderly man receives a garland and seems perplexed as to what he should do with it.

Provenance: La Guirlande



The Tomb of Lord Byron
The Tomb of Lord Byron
By Hermann-Paul
L'Estampe Originale

The Tomb of Lord Byron

Year: 1923

Description: This large ink drawing depicts a woman as she reads the inscription on the tomb of Lord Byron at St Mary Magdelene Church in Hucknall. It reads, "There is that within me that shall tire, Torture and time and breath when I expire." This drawing is dated based on the style of dress she wears and the window of time in which Hermann-Paul was likely in Britain.

Provenance: L'Estampe Originale



La croix de Camargue
La croix de Camargue
By Hermann-Paul
Private commission

La croix de Camargue

Year: 1924

Description: Later in life, Hermann-Paul spent a lot of time in Camargue in the South of France. In 1924, a provencal aristicrat commissioned this cross

Provenance: Private commission



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