Plate 10 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.

Plate 11 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.

Plate 12 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. The view through an open doorway reveals warlike nations in prayer, yet in fact enemies. Various costumes represent the different countries present. Above the bowed, kneeling figures is a bank of clouds upon which…

Plate 13 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. In this powerful image, Slevogt depicts the mythical winged horse Pegasus stripped of its heroic status and power. The same creature that Perseus rode to rescue Andromeda is now wretched, its proud head hung low…

Plate 14 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. Black humour surfaces in this darkly comical image. Several skeletal figures representing death scream past each other from opposite directions, riding artillery shells and shrieking with glee as they fly toward…

Plate 15 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.

Plate 16 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.

Plate 17 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. The transformation of the Great War into a brutal mechanised slaughter is given a surreal and ironic twist. Civilians terrified by the prospect of war can line up in a tree-lined boulevard, pay a coin into a…

Plate 18 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.

Plate 19 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.