Prayer before Battle

Wilke, Rudolf
Prayer before Battle

1900
Ink and chalk, heightened with white (spraying technique in red, blue and black) on paper
42 : 37 cm
Signed lower right

Reproduced in:
‘Simplicissimus’, 5/27 (1900), p.217 with the following caption: “Christliche Soldaten, fassen wir unsere Gefühle zusammen in dem Rufe: Der liebe Gott hurra! hurra! hurra!”

6.800 €