Bad Mergentheim photo of where Fechenbach's family home was

 

Photo taken during our recent visit to Bad Mergentheim of Kelliyon Square where the Fechenbach family had their home and business. The buildings where demolished in the 1970's as was a lot of old Bad Mergentheim before the heritage of the town was consider over development. Hermann's print of the same square.

Bad Mergentheim Visit

 

Photo of what was the town hall now tourist information centre on the main square in Bad Mergentheim. Hermann Fechenbach wood engraving print of the same square.

Two sketchbooks by Hermann Fechenbach during his time as a soldier on the Western Front in 1916-1917

Two sketchbooks compiled by Hermann Fechenbach during his time as a soldier on the Western Front in 1916-1917 are in the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection in Brown University Library in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. One of them will be included in an exhibition of WW1 artworks to be held at the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C. in 2014.

 

My thanks to Peter Harrington, Curator, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library.

 

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