/internal/media/dispatcher/4759/fullThe Casualty Transport II1869[August von Pettenkofen]August von PettenkofenOil on wood 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.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/882/rdf