821 - After Carl Röchling, "Der Marsch durch das Heimatdorf", Pickelhaube soldiers, half-timbered village

After Carl Röchling, "Der Marsch durch das Heimatdorf", Pickelhaube soldiers, half-timbered village Overpainted lithograph on wooden panel, unsigned, after Carl Röchling (1855 Saarbrücken – 1920 Berlin), "Der Marsch durch das Heimatdorf", summery village street with half-timbered houses, red tiled roofs and green shutters, column of soldiers in dark uniform coats with red facings, the spiked helmets decorated with green twigs, in front an old man with a full white beard, blue cap and red jerkin, arm in arm with a soldier, on the right a running soldier with a drum reaching out his hand to a man in a white apron, on the left a man with a bundle of grass, a barefoot boy and a dark brown dog, in the right foreground a goose, upper right a wrought-iron bracket with a black lion in a medallion, condition commensurate with age, craquelure, paint losses, retouching, image 24x38.5 cm (HxW), framed, gold-coloured frame with leaf moulding and bead moulding, frame bumped, frame width 5 cm Carl Röchling studied from 1875 to 1880 at the art school in Karlsruhe under Ludwig Des Coudres and then went to Berlin, where he became a pupil of Anton von Werner and worked on large battle panoramas such as that of Sedan. As a military and history painter he devoted himself above all to the Prussian army, the campaigns of Frederick the Great and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. In the German Empire his soldier paintings reached a wide audience mainly through reproductions and postcards; the motif "Marsch durch das Heimatdorf" also appeared as a wood engraving. As a genre, the picture is close to the oleograph, in which a painting was reproduced in colour lithography and brought closer to the original by varnish and embossed texture.