Bavarian Field Mass - Kaspar Schleibner - 1915 - Ars Sancta

Painting by Kaspar Schleibner titled Bavarian Field Mass (1915), showing a chaplain holding a chalice during an outdoor WWI liturgy for soldiers, with a wounded man attended by a nun in the foreground and a cannon near a crucifix.

Bavarian Field Mass – Kaspar Schleibner – 1915

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Title of the painting: Bayerische Feldmesse (Bavarian Field Mass)

Name of the artist: Kaspar Schleibner

Date: 1915

Visual description: A 1915 oil painting by Kaspar Schleibner depicting a “Bavarian Field Mass” during World War I. In a forest clearing, a military chaplain stands at the center holding the chalice, surrounded by kneeling soldiers in grey uniforms. In the foreground left, a wounded soldier lying on a bench is comforted by a nursing nun (Sister of Charity) as he gazes at the Eucharist. To the right, military rifles are stacked against a cannon near a large wooden crucifix. A flag with the Bavarian blue and white lozenges waves in the background.

License: Public Domain / See here

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