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Reservist pictures are pictorial representations that were made as a souvenir of the time of military service. These are partly printed graphics , photographs, but also textile work made using uniform parts.
history
Between about 1870 and the end of the First World War , reservists were generally very popular. These are mementos of the military service that soldiers could buy and that were presented with a certain pride in their homes. In addition to reservist pitcher or reservist whistle , reservist images were the most widespread form of these souvenirs. A common form of the reservist picture is a colored print, which shows a soldier surrounded by coats of arms, pictures of ruling princes or other patriotic images. This interchangeable picture was then personalized by sticking or printing a corresponding section from a photo of the owner as the soldier's face. Often the name of the owner and the unit with which he had done his military service was painted or printed. The reservist pictures also include souvenir photos showing the soldier surrounded by his comrades. Often the members of a unit were grouped in a landscape (often the garrison town of the unit concerned or one of its landmarks) using the technique of photo montage , sometimes supplemented by patriotic sayings or allusions to the life of a soldier. The third common form of the reservist image is a textile work, in which parts of the uniform, dried flowers and embroidery were often mounted around a photo of the owner in uniform. After the end of the First World War, the tradition of reservist images ended; in later times, simple photographs were (and are) more common than souvenirs of military service. While reservist pictures have long been viewed as kitsch, they are now popular collectibles. Reservist images of small or elitist units (e.g. airplanes or colonial troops) in particular can fetch high prices for militaria on the antiques market .
literature
- Arne Homann : depictions of castles on reservist pictures . In: Castle research: European correspondence sheet for interdisciplinary castellology 3 (2017): “The castle as a building and as a motif”, pp. 43–66. [1]