Hans Liska (1907-1984) is one of the most well-known WWII Axis illustrators, who served with the German Armed Forces during the war.
In 1942 and 1943 two albums were published with Hans Liska's sketches and color illustrations "to please the frontline soldiers and the workers of the weapon factories" in Germany. Definitely, his art lived up to the expectations of his peers, and propaganda clichés left the well-recognizable footprints all over his painting and drawings. Today the originals of both albums are a rarity.
However, at the same time artist was also able to create something more valuable than NSDAP-commissioned propaganda poster for the crumbling wall of the neighborhood bakery in bombed-up German provincial town. Liska convincingly demonstrates that he has an eye for the real war drama, with all its pain, suffering, desperation, hard work, endurance, sense of duty, and courage for yet one more push to the utmost, which all participants are likely to share, no matter under what colors they fought and died.
Check the fort in the near future for - some of - his sketches!
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