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It's unbelievable
Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
It's unbelievable
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Item no
32984
Title
It's unbelievable
Description
The caption of this cartoon reads:
'DUTCH OFFICER: "How can they have soiled their hands with such atrocities!"
SHE: "Can they have done it, my dear? German officers are so nice."'
Artist / maker
Raemaekers, Louis
Date
1916
Size
34.6 x 27.7 cm
Type
Chromolithograph
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
.
Raemaekers mocks the apathy of his native country through the conversation of a bourgeois couple in their comfortable home. The Dutch officer relaxes in his armchair while a servant brings tea, and his wife purses her lips in disbelief. Due to their isolation from the war, she refuses to believe that people that have been kind to her would commit war atrocities. The clean, organised nature of their home and dress contrasts with the disorder of battle.
The
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
have published a book of his works entitled, 'Louis Raemaekers - with pen and pencil as a weapon'.
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Louis Raemaekers and World War One
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