The Great War was fought on land, on sea and in the air. Most people think of the war as being fought more-or-less on the Western Front by soldiers in trenches.
Vadim Voitekhovitch was born in a small town of Mozyr, Belarus. He spent most of his life Belarus and he graduated from Bobruisk Art College. From 2004 he lives
Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas When World War I broke out, German artist Otto Dix volunteered for the army. He spent three years on the front lines, amidst some of the most horrifying violence imaginable, before being discharged a few weeks after the war’s end. He returned home with a nasty case of PTSD and a new artistic motivation, helping to form the progressive, pacifist artists’ collective, the Dresden Secession. In 1923, he debuted The Trench, an anti-war painting so disturbing the museum hid it behind a curtain. The Mayor of Cologne not only backed out of purchasing The Trench, he got the museum director fired for even displaying it. A year later, he published Der Krieg, a collection of 50 etchings inspired by the war, a sampling of which you see here. The harsh lines and brutal textures exude a violent intensity—it all seems to accost the viewer. (If you recognize a bit of “gonzo” in the illustrations, you’re picking up on one of Ralph Steadman’s major influences.) Dix was quickly labeled a degenerate artist when the Nazis took power, and over 260 of his paintings were seized—many of them burned. For a long time The Trench...
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Même si cette guerre nous semble loin, déjà à l'époque on essayait d'utiliser tous les moyens de communications, certes plus limités, pour mobiliser les foules. Oui il y a avait une vie avant Twitter ...
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New photography taken in the remnants of WWI tunnels portray the memories kept by soldiers who sought safety underground.
The First World War trenches at Main des Massiges have featured several times on this site recently and understandably so as they are among the most impressive anywhere on the Western Front. Here a…
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By the time the Battle of Verdun drew to a close in December of 1916, it had been going on for nearly a year
Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger During the miserable trench warfare of WWI, a night of humanity offered some hope of peace. Arthur Conan Doyle called it “one human episode amid all the a…
Rediscovered footage of Great War veterans talking about their first-hand experiences of the conflict will be shown in the documentary, I Was There: The Great War Interviews, on BBC Two next Friday night.
Andy Belsey has spent over 4 years making military models that show how trench warfare impacted WWI. Check out photos of these scale model masterpieces.
