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Objekt 10

Two war veterans

Description

This is also a very bitter caricature of the misery of the war-disabled: for the shoeshine boy here has not much left to clean, since one soldier has lost a leg, the other even both lower legs. This group also follows a caricature by Eugène Traviès.

Object description

Anton Sohn workshop, Zizenhausen near Stockach (Baden-Württemberg), mid-19th century.

Clay, molded in model, fired, painted

Gift Robert Philippi Mauley, Basel

Inv. 1938.197.

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