Frigyes Raffay

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Accession Number ART27830
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 29.6 x 19.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour over pencil
Maker Binder, Tibor
Place made Poland: Gross-Born
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: External copyright

Description

Depicts a portrait of Frigyes Raffay, an Hungarian soldier in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was captured by the Americans and held a POW in Romelly and Mailly-le-Camp, France. A collection of watercolour drawings and pencil sketches done by the artist of fellow captives in a prisoner-of-war camp in France when captured by the Americans whilst in the Hungarian Army during the Second World War.