WW2 Art

BlackEdelweiss

I'm not sure if this has been done here yet but I thought I would throw up a few bits of WW2 art. There is tons out there so this is just a snippet but it would be nice to come across some people havent seen yet.

ejmaztec

BlackEdelweiss wrote: »

I'm not sure if this has been done here yet but I thought I would throw up a few bits of WW2 art. There is tons out there so this is just a snippet but it would be nice to come across some people havent seen yet.

The snippet's so small, I can't see it:eek:

BlackEdelweiss

Sorry about that, I got distracted in the middle of posting and couldent get back to it.

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citizen_p

heres a couple of postcards from the time




war artist ernst eigener

imme

some interesting images there OP.
I was only thinking of war artists the other day, more WW1 war artists. It was when I was writing my christmas cards, because they were Sir John Lavery images. He'd been a WW1 war artist.

Of course official war artists continued up to the Falklands, they might even still continue.

BlackEdelweiss

BlackEdelweiss

"Hans Liska (1907-1984) is one of the most well-known and prolific WWII Axis illustrators, who served with the German Armed Forces during the war. In 1942 and 1943 German publishing house Carl Werner in Reichenbach, sponsored by Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG, published 2 albums with Hans Liska's sketches and color illustrations "to please the frontline soldiers and the workers of the weapon factories" in Germany. Definitely, Liska's art lived up to the expectations of his peers, and propaganda clichés left the well-recognizable footprints all over his painting and drawings. However, at the same time artist was also able to create something more valuable than NSDAP-commissioned propaganda poster for the crumbling wall of the neighborhood bakery in bombed-up German provincial town. Liska convincingly demonstrates that he has an eye for the real war drama, with all its pain, suffering, desperation, hard work, endurance, sense of duty, and courage for yet one more push to the utmost, which all participants are likely to share, no matter under what colors they fought and died."

FiSe

That's some impressive stuff there, BlackEdelweiss.
In my opinion far more better art than those overcrowded polished paintings of Cranston. Love every single line of it.

Would you consider a 'boxart' as a WWII art too?

BlackEdelweiss

A few from Guy Sajer, I never heard of these before. I love the Liska drawings, was better than the Cranston type but I still like them.