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Description
‘Erinnerung an Terstilleferm’ (‘Remembering the Terstille Farm’)
Biography: Franz Eichhorst
Lithograph, created in 1915. Assumably from a series of 50.
Displayed at the ‘Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung 1916; subsection ‘Kriegsbilder Ausstellung’, Königliche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin.
By Franz Eichhorst, with numerous WWI and WWII paintings and the unsurpassed number of 57 displayed works at the GDK, -German’s most important war painter.
Exhibition catalog of the ‘Königliche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, Kriegsbilder Ausstellung’, 1916.
During World War I, the northeastern bank of the river Yser (B), between Sint-Joris and Diksmuide, more or less formed the German front line. The allied front line roughly followed the former railway line Nieuwpoort-Diksmuide. The area east of this railway and west of the Yser was flooded and formed a buffer between the fronts. In this inundated area, both parties had set up outposts in higher areas, usually farm sites. These outposts could be reached by constructed passerelles (‘Brückenstegen’ or ‘wooden piers’). In the area west of the Yser German outposts were set up at the farms like ‘Grote Hemme’, ‘Violette’ and ‘Terstille’. These outposts could only be reached via the passerelles, but these wooden piers were completely in sight of the enemy and could therefore only be used at night.
The Yser bank near Mannekensvere was in the ‘Marinegebiet’. This refers to that part of the German front zone and the hinterland that was occupied by the ‘Marinekorps Flandern’ (‘Naval Corps Flanders’). In 1915 and again between 25 January 1916 and 29 September 1916, the German Third Marine Infantry Regiment occupied the Mannekensvere sector: there were the Hemme-Kompanie, the Violette-Kompanie, the Terstille-Kompanie, the Mannekensvaere-Kompanie, the Linke Reserve-Kompanie and the Straight Reserve-Kompanie.
Terstille Farm (‘Fme Terstille’) marked on the map of the battle fields of the river Yser: https://www.idesetautres.be/upload/download.php?file=CHAMP%20BATAILLE%20YSER%20CARTE%20BULLETIN%20TCB%20191906.pdf
Franz Eichhorst, ‘Ablösung von der Terstilleferm’ (‘Relief of troops at Terstille Farm’). Feldpostkarte, stamped 1917, ‘Reinertrag für die Ehrenbeihilfe des 3. Mar.- Inf. Regt.‘ (‘Net proceeds for the benefit of Honorary Aid to the Third Marine Infantry Regiment’).
| – condition | : IV Litho has several creases |
| – size | : 52 x 49 cm |
| – signed | : below ‘Erinnerung an Terstilleferm – Franz Eichhorst’ |
| – type | : Assumably form a series of 50 |
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