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Österreichische Soldaten eine Furt überschreitend

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Austrian Soldiers Crossing a Ford
Date1851

Artist August von Pettenkofen (1822 Wien – 1889 Wien)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on cardboard
Dimensions
31 × 40 cm
SignatureSign. und dat. rechts unten: Pettenkofen 1851
Inventory number1443
Location Upper Belvedere
It is not known why August von Pettenkofen accompanied the Austrian army as a war artist in the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848/49, but this military conflict preoccupied the artist as a subject through to the 1860s. His paintings do not represent Austrian and Russian soldiers in heroic poses, however, but capture the daily privations and horrors of war using a dark palette. The genre-like depiction of Bivouacking Russian Soldiers is still entirely in the tradition of Biedermeier Realism. By contrast, Transportation of Wounded Soldiers II and After the Battle appear harsh and austere.

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