your shopping cart summary
0 items in your cart 
Total $0.00

Historische Uniformen 1971

Historische Uniformen, Tritt, 1971
Click image to view detail
Item #: Uniformen-71
Historische Uniformen, 1971
Korsch-Verlag, 1971
Price: $30.00
Quantity
This is the “Uniforms” calendar for 1971 containing full color reproductions of military dress uniform watercolors by Wolfgang Tritt. It is the American edition of "Historische Uniformen".

The condition is as shown in the product images which are photographs of the actual calendar. It is in used condition with very minor age related discoloring but otherwise is in very good condition. The March calendar page is loose but present.

Wolfgang Tritt - 1913-1983

The following is a memoriam found in the back of the 1985 “Historische Uniformen” calendar:

The graphic artist and painter Wolfgang Tritt, known far beyond Germany's borders, died in Berlin on January 18, 1983 at the age of seventy. The search for the beautiful runs like a red thread through his life, and this – his ideal – is also expressed in his creations.

After the war, he first depicted “old Berlin” in numerous colored watercolor prints, in ever new variants – a reminder of an intact and beautiful past! The publisher Korsch-Verlag, having taken notice of him, then commissioned Tritt to design calendars about the city and German landscapes.

Tritt then became interested in “Militaria”, a completely new field of work which was probably unique at the time (this field of study, also known as Uniformology, was pioneered in the late nineteenth century by another well-known German artist – Richard Knötel). Extensive studies in almost all military museums in Europe and the USA created the basis for his uniquely beautiful watercolors of uniforms, which, due to the accuracy of their depiction, initially in a series of postcards, and from 1967 onwards in the “Historische Uniformen” calendar series, created a historically sound image of the "colorful coat" of yesteryear.

He is captivating and always new in the design of his horses, which give his motifs a liveliness and expressiveness that is so characteristic of Tritt's “Militaria”.

Almost 240 of these magnificent uniform pictures bear witness to the extensive work of this virtuoso artist.

 

These are vintage calendars, starting in 1967, showing reproductions of military dress uniforms from watercolors by the noted German artist Wolfgang Tritt. Each month shows a different uniform in full color. The renderings are carefully researched and accurately depict the uniforms. 

These are high quality prints on heavy stock published by Korsch-Verlag in Germany. The U.S. edition is called either “Dress Parade” or “Uniforms”, and the German edition is called “Historische Uniformen”. The German edition also includes an additional page with descriptions, in German, of the uniforms depicted in the watercolors.
 
Tritt died in 1983 and the last year his paintings appeared in the calendars was 1984 (although the December 1985 picture was also by Tritt). The calendar series has been continued and beginning with the 1985 calendar, the paintings are by the well known uniformologists Lilian and Fred Funcken.