In the Service of the Kaiser: Uniforms & Equipment of the World War I German Soldier as Painted by Soldier-Artist Friedrich Ludwig Scharf

by Charles Woolley

Military artists tend to paint the two extremes of the soldiers life; at one end the subject is rendered in his parade best uniform, pressed and spotlessly clean, and at the other extreme locked in heroic combat defeating his enemy. Friedrich Ludwig Scharf took the middle road, painting the troops as they looked going about their daily duties. Scharf, on one hand an artist, had also been a career J ger enlisted man, rising to the rank of Offizierstellvertrater...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764319817
• ISBN13: 9780764319815
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.1" x 12.0"