ZU STERBEBILDCHEN IM BURGENLAND (EIN ARBEITSBERICHT)
MEMORIAL PICTURES OF DECEASED PERSONS

Summary/Abstract: The Burgenländische Landesmuseum has in its collections some “Totengedenkbildchen“, small prints to keep the memory of a deceased person. They had come to the museum by chance. Most of them commemorate soldiers of WW2, only a few were printed after 1945. Collecting attempts in the spring of 2000 showed, that the custom to give away such items continued up to the present, it even seems that it has become more common in the last years. Some very new examples are already home made on PC.

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