Bronze, brown patinated; marked W. Ohly on the side of the base; H. 29.8 cm. Maquette for a fountain statue in Ludwigshafen-Friesenheim cemetery, depicting a full-length figure of St Francis with his arms outstretched.
Fountain comprising a full-length figure in bronze of St Francis, arms outstretched, standing on a bronze orb with birds at his feet, set within a stone bowl.
Depicts Christ kneeling to support the limp body of a fallen German soldier in a pieta type composition. Christ notably has ringlets either side of his face, akin to Orthodox Jewish payots.
Stone relief carvings for either side of the main portal of the cemetery chapel, depicting a classically-robed man in a ploughed field, on one side sowing seed and on the other side reaping the harvest with a small scythe. Above him are symbols of a…