Zug von Soldaten, im Vordergrund rechts wird ein am Boden Liegender entkleidet 

Dirk Maas created this expressive drawing with pen and brown ink. The composition is a scene of soldiers, yet it is the foreground that arrests our attention. Here, a figure lies prone, being stripped, the act rendered with urgent lines that convey a sense of violation. Maas deftly contrasts this scene with the broader context of military transit in the background. The landscape is depicted with looser, more gestural strokes, suggesting movement and distance. The layering of figures, from the detailed foreground to the receding background, creates a dynamic spatial tension. The choice of brown ink unifies the composition, but also serves to mute the scene, perhaps reflecting on the desensitization that war breeds. Maas does not simply depict; he uses form and composition to subtly critique, inviting us to consider the individual cost of collective conflict. It is in the tension between form and content that the drawing finds its unsettling power.