File:Auf Vorposten.jpg

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Georg Friedrich Kersting: Outpost Duty  wikidata:Q69661639 reasonator:Q69661639
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Georg Friedrich Kersting  (1785–1847)  wikidata:Q215590
 
Georg Friedrich Kersting
Description painter
Date of birth/death 31 October 1785 / 1 December 1785 / 22 October 1785 Edit this at Wikidata 1 July 1847 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Güstrow (Mecklenburg) Meissen
Work period 1808 Edit this at Wikidata–1847 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q215590
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German:
Theodor Körner, Friedrich Friesen und Heinrich Hartmann auf Vorposten Edit this at Wikidata

On Sentry Duty
label QS:Lde,"Auf Vorposten"
label QS:Len,"On Sentry Duty"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Theodor Körner, Karl Friedrich Friesen and Henry Hartmann as „Lützower Jäger“ (literally Lützow hunters).
English: On Sentry Duty. Painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting (1815). Nationalgalerie Berlin. Kersting here depicted three fellow volunteers in the Lützow Free Corps who had died in battle in 1813: Heinrich Hartmann, law student (smoking a pipe); Theodor Körner, poet and dramatist (behind Hartmann); and Friedrich Friesen, co-founder of the gymnastics movement (Turnbewegung).
Date 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 46 cm (18.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 35 cm (13.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+46U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+35U174728
institution QS:P195,Q162111
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A II 327 (Alte Nationalgalerie) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history 1921 erworben von Margarete Graf-Baraneck, Berlin, im Tausch gegen Anders Zorns Gemälde "Sommerabend in Schweden"
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Monogram and date bottom right:

G K 15
References Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 02531297
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Online-Datenbank der Sammlungen
Source/Photographer Jost Hermand, Sieben Arten an Deutschland zu leiden (Athenäum, 1979), following p. 36. Note: Hermand incorrectly identifies Heinrich Hartmann as the German painter Ferdinand Hartmann (1774-1842).
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