GERMAN WWII WOLFGANG WILLRICH BOOKS.

Wolfgang Willrich one of the foremost artists of the Third Reich period whose work has been featured in postcard size, his artwork was very patriotic, most of his military work was of soldiers, sailors and airmen at the front, his civilian work portrayed the Ayran man and woman and depicted as the ideal of the Third Reich. Any postcards, books or ephemera of Willrich are strongly collected, the first book published in 1939 was published by the Border and Overseas Publishing House presumably to promote the art of the Third Reich overseas. There is a stamp on the inside of the page belonging to the Library of the Ostland Organisation. There is also an ink stamp placed on the 2nd page of the Library of the collection of the post war collector Francis Catella of France. The first 40 pages of the book contain much text plus some prints of Willrich?s work. The remainder of the book, which contains 48 full page reproduced works of Willrich both in colour, sephia and black and white, the majority are all of civil figures wearing both national costume or peasant dress. The second book is with a soft cover published in Buenos Aires Argentina in 1949 all in German with many patriotic images of a similar nature to the first and larger book. In each image accompanied by much text explaining each image, many military. The last two pages is the life story of Wolfgang Willrich interesting in that in this early post war period in South America the image and the ideals of the Third Reich were still strong. The third book, a rather large publication is publication is published by the NSDAP in 1939, is all text and is entitled ‘WOMEN AND MOTHER OF THE PEOPLE’, it is published by Rudolf Hess with a foreward by Dr.Robert Ley and Alfred Rosenberg.

Code: 90571