E. Vogt
[German Naval Personnel]

ArtistGerman
CultureGerman
Titles
  • [German Naval Personnel]
DateApril 1912
Place depictedCuxhaven, Germany
MediumGelatin silver print with applied color, photomontage
DimensionsImage: 18 × 22 1/2 in. (45.7 × 57.2 cm)
Sheet: 18 × 22 1/2 in. (45.7 × 57.2 cm)
Mount: 18 × 22 7/8 in. (45.7 × 58.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Sara S. Morgan
Object number2015.539
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Filled
with humorous details and patriotic verse, this photomontage by Emil Vogt, a
local portrait photographer in the North Sea port of Cuxhaven, must have been
made as a keepsake for the seamen of this artillery unit—a class picture of a
sort as they finished their three-year term as conscripts in the Imperial
German Navy. Below the German war flag at the top, signal flags on the left
yardarm read P-T-A (“I am weighing anchor”) and on the right 0-4-1-2 (April
1912, the month of the sailors’ departure). A signpost points “zur heimat” [“to
home”] and the company’s radio-operator sends a final message, “An alle
Stationen: Übung beendet” [“To all stations: Exercise completed.”] Our delight
in the young sailors’ lighthearted antics and the photographer’s playful
manipulations is tempered by the knowledge that World War I would soon upend
millions of similarly carefree lives on all sides.  




Provenance[Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington, D.C.]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in negative, recto, bottom right over image: E. Vogt. // Cuxhaven

Inscriptions on verso board in German

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