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Is it you, Mother?
Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
Is it you, Mother?
Is it you, Mother?
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33025
Title
Is it you, Mother?
Description
'This cartoon is remarkable as the only one of the series where a German is shown behaving with humanity."
Artist / maker
Raemaekers, Louis
Date
1916
Size
34.6 x 25.9 cm
Type
Chromolithograph
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
.
A German soldier holds a young Allied solider as he dies. The title speaks for the dying man and demonstrates the humanity of men fighting on both sides of the war. As he dies, the soldier thinks of his mother, and the German soldier holds his hand in a gesture of comfort, gazing at the horror of death. While Raemaekers depicts the German government as brutal and foolish, he recognises the pain, sacrifice and humanity of the common soldier.
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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