Nickc
Active member
There were a large number of artists who produced patriotic postcards during the war.
Most of them are probably lost to history but a few of them are still well known:
First World German postcard war artist Brynolf Wennerberg (who signs his work B. W. )
Brynolf Wennerberg was actually Swedish not German, his style of romantic postcards are not to my taste, but they are very popular with postcard collectors.
For example I have never had one in stock for mor than a week!
I do own one of his postcards, because of what it depicts really.
As a method of raising funds a large wooden Iron Cross was mounted on a wall and people paid between 1 - 5 marks to have a nail hammered in, having read about this fund raising idea.
Having read about it in books and seen it the remastered movie someone here posted, sorry I foget who did, with HIndenburg on the Eastern Front.
Apart from one film and this one postcard I have never seen any other photographs or postcards of this fund raising event.
Most of them are probably lost to history but a few of them are still well known:
First World German postcard war artist Brynolf Wennerberg (who signs his work B. W. )
Brynolf Wennerberg was actually Swedish not German, his style of romantic postcards are not to my taste, but they are very popular with postcard collectors.
For example I have never had one in stock for mor than a week!
I do own one of his postcards, because of what it depicts really.
As a method of raising funds a large wooden Iron Cross was mounted on a wall and people paid between 1 - 5 marks to have a nail hammered in, having read about this fund raising idea.
Having read about it in books and seen it the remastered movie someone here posted, sorry I foget who did, with HIndenburg on the Eastern Front.
Apart from one film and this one postcard I have never seen any other photographs or postcards of this fund raising event.