Wolfgang Willrich War Artist
Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Bilingual text (English and German). Willrich was best known as a portrait painter of Knight’s Cross holders, but he also painted war scenes, landscapes and flowers. By war’s end most of his works had been destroyed in bombings, lost or stolen. A feldwebel (sergeant) in the Wehrmacht, Willrich was interned by the allies after the war and painted portraits of many American officers during his captivity, until his release in 1946 due to ill health.
Complete edition in the original publisher’s cover (hardcover in the format 22.3 x 28.8 cm) with two-colour spine and colour photo illustrated cover title, designed by Roger Waterman. 303 pages, with numerous, mostly color photo illustrations on art paper, text English / German.
Contents:
- Foreword by Major General Horst Niemack.
- The path of the draughtsman Wolfgang Willrich until 1939 (soldier, student and freelance artist).
- Postcard series “German Blood”, series of drawings for the SS.
- The war period the work as a war draughtsman for the OKH.
- The postcard series of the VDA, known and unknown soldier portraits (Knight’s Cross bearers)
- Sketches of the war.
- Captivity and post-war period.
- German / Third Reich, National Socialist Art, German Portrait Art in the 20th Century.
