[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG)./internal/media/dispatcher/102537/fullThe Survivors194893 x 98 cm
Oil on canvas57680
This scene unfolding under a dark night sky resembles a Dance of Death. Walther Gamerith shows a group of men wounded in war. Their faces contorted, their movements clumsy, they seem to be hypnotically following the beat set by the marching drummer in the foreground. Is this a personification of death, or does the figure represent the warmongers, or war itself? The artist leaves this question unanswered. Gamerith painted this disturbing, deeply melancholy scene after his military service in World War II. It is part of a gloomy series of works in which the artist engaged with his experiences in the war. Painting101942084517https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-4517/manifest