War (Franz Stuck painting and John Heartfield appropriation)
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Der Krieg[1] (1894) is a painting by Franz von Stuck in the collection of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München. It depicts a nude warrior sitting on a horse overlooking and trampling dead naked bodies. It was appropriated by John Heartfield in Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung in 1933. In Heartfield's version, a photo of Hitler was grafted behind the naked warrior.
On the original Stuck painting:
- “The great picture called War won him at last the encouragement of the State. It is here reproduced. This was purchased in 1894 for the Pinacothek at Munich, and Stuck was appointed Professor there. We should seek in vain through the whole range of modern German art for an example of pictorial means carried to such absolute mastery as in this picture. The livid bodies on the earth are drawn with a simplicity and breadth worthy of an Old Master, the awful Horseman rides across the night-sky in symbolic hues, and a lurid glow flames on the horizon.” — Paul Schultze-Naumberg[2]
On the appropriation by Heartfield:
- "Heartfield added the swastika-shaped lightning and photo of Hitler to a photograph of Der Krieg by the German artist Franz von Stuck (1863-1928), one of Hitler’s favorite painters. The painting was on view in Munich at the time. This montage was linked to the article on the next page, “’Against the East We Want to Ride!’ The Third Reich Arms for War,” which suggested that Germany was preparing for war against the Soviet Union. In his book Mein Kampf, Hitler said he wanted to revive the “Drive to the East,” an expansionist policy of thirteenth and fourteenth-century Teutonic knights."[3]
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