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Bivouacking Russian Soldiers
Date1852

Artist August von Pettenkofen (1822 Wien – 1889 Wien)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on cardboard
Dimensions
22 × 31 cm
SignatureSign. und dat. links unten: A. Pettenkofen 1852.
Inventory number2101
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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Kaiserliche Gemäldegalerie
1921 Übernahme aus dem Kunsthistorischen Museum, Wien

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