Der Hias, ein feldgraues Spiel – Historic Reproduction
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This rare historic image captures Der Hias, ein feldgraues Spiel in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Der Hias, ein feldgraues Spiel
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The title sets this piece apart with its Bavarian flavor. "Der Hias" is a familiar nickname for Matthias, a stock figure of the good-natured everyman soldier, and "feldgraues Spiel" roughly means "a field-gray game," naming the German army's wartime uniform color. Dated 1917, the third year of the war, the image belongs to a body of humorous and sentimental works that German publishers produced for soldiers at the front and families at home. Such pictures often eased the harsh realities of trench warfare by turning soldiers into recognizable, affectionate characters, and much of the meaning here lives in the dialect wordplay of the title.
| Created / published | 1917 |
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| Original scan | 4,030 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1311_Der_Hias_ein_feldgraues_1917 |
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