Dickebusch Church

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Accession Number ART02914
Collection type Art
Measurement framed: 41.4 x 46 cm; unframed: 18.6 x 23.9 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on artist board
Maker Leist, Fred
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Dickebusch
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts the ruins of a church at Dickebusch in Belgium. The figure of a man, possibly a soldier, can be seen walking past in front of the damaged building. Fred Leist was appointed an official war artist in September 1917, attached to the 5th Division AIF and worked twice in France between September to December 1917 and from June to August 1918.