German Tanks from World War Two in Military Fine Art Prints &tm

Welcome to the website dedicated to art prints and military gifts of German tanks of World War Two. We have Limited Edition art prints and original oil paintings for purchase and will be adding new art prints and items on our product pages in the near future. All Art Prints are produced by our parent company Cranston Fine Arts. 

Panther Tank. To deal with the threat of the Russian T34 tanks on the Russian front it became imperative  to design and built a heavier tank for the German Army. After examining captured Russian tanks,   It was agreed that while the construction and design of a new heavy 6-0 ton tank  the Tiger was  built a smaller but effective 35 ton tank shod be also built. This gave berth to the panther. 

 Panzer tank The German thoughts on Tank development during the mid 1930's was based on the requirement of one light Tank and one Medium tank. In 1935 various german Companies were given the development contracts for the new medium tankthe PanzerKampfwagen PZKpFW III  Ausf J which had a total of 2,616 tanks built between March 1941 and July 1942.  650 . 

The Tiger I (PZKPFW VI AUSF E ) was built by Henschel. and a total of 1354 tanks were built in its two year production period. August 1942 until August 1944. This very large and heavy tank (57 tonnes) took 300,000 man hours to build which was twice the man hours it took to build a Panther.  First used n the Russian front with 502nd  Schwere Panzerabteilung  and was moved to Mga  which was close to Leningrad on the 29th August 1942 The Tiger first saw service in North Africa with  the 501st Schwere panzer Abteilung at the end of 1942 , in time to take part in the Battle for Tunisia.

The Konigstiger with its high level of armour and firepower, was without doubt the heaviest operational German tank, which had no equivalent in the allied tank armoury.  First ordered in January 1943 with the prototype appearing in October 1943.   It was planned to have the Henschel factory building 140 King Tigers a month, but by the end of the war there was only a total of 487 built.