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The Casualty Transport II
Date1869

Artist August von Pettenkofen (1822 Wien – 1889 Wien)

ULAN

Object typePainting
MediumOil on wood
Dimensions
29,4 x 44,7 cm
SignatureSign., dat. und bez. links unten: Pettenkofen à Mr. Plach 869.
Inventory number1861
Location Currently not on display
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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Sammlung Gsell, Wien
1917 Ankauf Julius Freiherr von Schwarz, Wien

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