Sketches and watercolours of WWII

[bbob]

These are made by a Hans Liska, who served in the german army in wwii. I found them almost by accident, but thought they were interesting, both artistically and historically. Plus I think its neat to see some of it in colour as percieved by an artist, and not overlaid onto a B/W photo some 60 years later.

Anyway, here goes:

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/006/Liska009.jpg

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/006/Liska028.jpg


http://www.allworldwars.com/World%20War%20II%20Sketches%20By%20Hans%20Liska.ht ml

A side note, posted this in its own thread because I thought the art was somewhat inspirational aside from being a historical novelty, which is why i didnt just put it in the "awesomeness" thread. If this is silly reasoning, please delete this accordingly.

[Ged]

pretty cool, Ive still got my grandfathers sketchbook from when he was in eqypt in world war 2 with the british forces somewhere, although he was more focused on the egyptians and origins of man and stuff than the war.

[marlfox8]

nice the detail is awesome

[rolfness]

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/006/Liska011.jpg

After English stay in a French château.

not much has changed in 70 years...

[carlo_c]

Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed looking through those

[avatar09]

That is awesome! I am always interested in such material and something from WW II can be goldmine...

[downarmy]

awsome!

[conte]

holy shit, so damn nice!!!

[ENODMI]

Damn, that guy could draw! Thks for sharing:)

[Ferg]

great find bbob!

[MRico]

Man, I love watercolor work...thanks for the link bbob.

[Xoliul]

Super, thanks for posting, excellent stuff really.

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/006/Liska026.jpg

Isn't this one really famous? I've seen this before.

[HonkyPunch]

Dig the ones of the POW's, they all look angry or upset, with good reason ahah.

[Paul Pepera]

That is really amazing; thanks for posting this!

[ErichWK]

The english broke that poor poor cello. =(

[JasonLavoie]

Dig the ones of the POW's, they all look angry or upset, with good reason ahah.

awwwww low blow!

[moof]

lot of energy in these.

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/006/Liska048.jpg

that's a big gunn

[gauss]

Thank you for sharing--we know that the artist's perspective is different (and in some ways truer) than the photograph. Serious skill at work here, especially in the environment of a warzone. Beautiful work, thanks.

[bbob]

Glad you guys liked it, too ^_^

[Stukas over the Pantheon]

Isn't this one really famous? I've seen this before.

Yeah, probably. I think he did some of the posters for recruiting, too.

Also, after scrounging a bit around yesterday, i found out he did quite a lot of work for Mercedes Benz after the war.

[HonkyPunch]

awwwww low blow!

You wouldn't be upset to be a prisoner of war? Ahah.

[Belltann]

Amazing yet damn scary stuff.

[psychoticprankster]

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/006/Liska011.jpg

After English stay in a French château.

not much has changed in 70 years...

At first i thought this was a joke till i saw the website.

[psychoticprankster]

lot of energy in these.

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/006/Liska048.jpg

that's a big gunn

thats not a gun its a tilted launch pad for a V8 rocket I believe.

[bbob]

Looks to me like one of these Krupp railway guns:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Anzioanniegun.jpg


However, it looks as if there is quite a bit of stretching the truth in that watercolour, making it look like there is one of these for every mile of the line. When in reality only 35 of them were built from the 30'ies to the end of the war, with a couple that had their barrels split due to funky rifling.