So Säh' es aus in Deutschen Landen [This is how it would look in German lands...]

A German poster made towards the end of the First World War. It depicts a German city in flames on the banks of the Rhine, being devastated by huge French howitzer guns. The text "So Säh' es aus in deutschen Landen käm' der Franzose an den Rhein" translates as "This is how it would look in German lands if the French come to the Rhine". Created at the end of the First World War, it was one of the last-ditch attempts to rally the German people for their support in the conflict. It is similar in design to other Allied posters made depicting the German threat.

Egon Tschirch (1889-1948) was a German painter. He studied at the Berlin Art Academy and worked since 1908 as an art teacher. In 1912 and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg with Anton von Werbner. After leaving the school, Egon Tschirch worked as a freelance painter in Rostock. He traveled to southern France and Africa. In 1914 he traveled to Tunisia. These trips influenced his works, and relatively early on he decided to commit to being a painter. He was wounded as a soldier in World War I several times. After his recovery, he continued his studies in Berlin, settling in 1918 in Rostock. Here he created his landscapes, portraits, nudes, still lifes, stage and history paintings. He exhibited in Rostock, Schwerin and Berlin, producing oil paintings, watercolors, tempera, drawings and graphics. During the years of the Great Depression in Germany, 1921-1922, he received orders from the Mecklenburg towns for the design of emergency money, the so-called Reuter money. After the Second World War ended he began painting for the Soviet military command. He died in 1948 in Rostock.