The Leuchtenberg Cycle and the Napoleonic Campaigns of 1809 and 1812. The battle paintings of Albrecht Adam (1796-1862) acquired their special significance from the fact that Adam had personally taken part in the campaigns and recorded his observations in numerous sketches. The sketches later served him for the creation of the well-known Leuchtenberg cycle, which is presented and analysed in all details for the first time in this book. After an introduction to the life and work of the painter, all battle pictures of the cycle are shown on double pages. With the assistance of such well-known military historians as Col. P. Carles, P. Coturri, P. Fanfani, P. Foramitti, Y. Martin and M. Santus, each of the battles depicted is then historically classified and the scene depicted is analysed. In this way, each painting opens up to the reader in a new way as he is enabled to put himself in the strategic situation and to recognise the individual troop units and their significance for the respective battle. In detail, these are for the 1809 campaign: Caldiero; La Piave; Malborghetto; Tarvis; two paintings on St. Michael; Papa; two paintings on St. Michael; Papa; and two paintings on St. Michael. Michael; Papa; two paintings of Raab and for the campaign of 1812: two paintings of Ostrowno; two paintings of Wittepsk and three paintings of Borodino as well as the retreat.
Albrecht Adam went to Nuremberg as a confectioner's assistant and attended the drawing academy here. The battle painter Johann Lorenz Rugendas planted in the boy the seed for his later artistic work. Albrecht Adam succeeded in entering the service of a prince and general. He became court and battle painter to Napoleon I's stepson and Viceroy of Italy, Eugène de Beauharnais, who as Duke of Leuchtenberg was married to a Bavarian princess. He accompanied his employer on Napoleon's campaigns in 1809 and 1812, resulting in the battle paintings for the Leuchtenberg Gallery in Munich and the lithographic work "Voyage pittoresque et militaire de Willenberg ..." published in Munich in 1828. Albrecht Adam is considered one of the most important battle painters today. Unlike his contemporaries, he always attached importance to the clear depiction of the strategic situation.
Contents: Foreword Massimo Fiorentino Dr. Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt
Introduction Riccardo Papi
The life of the painter Albrecht Adam Munich Campaign of 1809 To Italy Milan To Grisons and stay in Monza -. 1810 Ancona and Nördlingen Through Switzerland to Italy - Idyll on Lake Como - Munich Campaign to Russia in 1812 Smolensk - Borodino - Battle of the Moskva Moscow Return Munich and Milan Artist's Life in Munich The Italian War of 1848 New Work Afterword
The Creation of the Cycle The Family and the Paintings The Legend of the Beauharnais-Leuchtenberg The Treaty
The Paintings of the Leuchtenberg Cycle The Paintings of Eugène de Beauharnais
The Campaign of 1809 Battle of Caldiero Battle of the Piave Storming of Malborghetto Battle of Tarvis St. Michael an der Mur Pápa - The Prehistory Battle of Raab Raab - The Original Painting
The Campaign of Russia 1812 The Three Days of Ostrowno 25. 26. and 27 July 1812 Battle of Vitebsk on 27 July 1812 Battle of Vitebsk on 27. July 1812 by Wilhelm von Kobell Battle of Borodino or on the Moskva, 7 September 1812 Borodino - For Eugène, 1815 Borodino - For Eugène, 1821 Retreat from Russia The Missing Paintings
Appendix The Viceroy's Staff Composition of the Army of Italy - April 1809 IV. Army Corps, 25 June 1812 Russian Album Albrecht Adam Sources Acknowledgements.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Pápi, R.
Title
Eugène und Adam. Der Prinz und sein Maler
Details
The book is almost exclusively illustrated in colour, over 400 colour illustrations, some in large format, individual maps. 344 pages.<br>Size 24 x 32 cm; thread stitching, cloth binding with dust jacket.
State
new
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