Left: Arthur Kampf, huge painting of Adolf Hitler in the City Hall of Berlin (in the ‘Köningstrasse’, renamed after 1951). In the possession of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich. Displayed at the Grosse Münchener Kunstausstellung in the Glaspalast, 1922. GDK 1949, room 3.Īrthur Kampf, ‘Die Aufbahrung Kaiser Wilhelm I‘ (‘The body of Kaiser Wilhelm I lying in state‘). In 2021/22 Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer (ranking just behind the Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor) hung the painting in Downing Street 10/11, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.Īrthur Kampf, ‘Der 30. The painting is part of the British Government Art Collection (which works are on display in major British government buildings). He was awarded an OBE for services to maintaining staff morale in the camp through producing postcard and badge designs used by fellow POWs. Tooke was captured at Antwerp in December 1914 and remained a POW at Doberitz camp, outside Berlin, until his repatriation in late 1918. = § =Īrthur Kampf, ‘Portrait of Cecil Arthur Tooke’ (1884-1966), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and Prisoner of War. : on backside: ‘Goldfield Galleries, Los Angeles’ On top of this filmposter ‘Invasion of Poland’: ‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen!.’ The slogan ‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen hat sie der Herr geschlagen’ was later used by the Nazis when they invaded Poland. ‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen‘ are also the first words of a German folksong from 1813. ‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen’ displayed at the ‘Grosse Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung’ in 1897. Some of these sketches are depicted in the book ‘Arthur Kampf’, Veldhagen & Klasing 1944. In the Battle of Leipzig, October 1813, the foundation was created for the German Empire of 1871.Īrthur Kampf created similar preliminary sketches for other historical works, like: ‘Volksopfer’ (1894), ‘Ansprache Friedrichs des Grossen an seine Generale in Köbne’ (1893), ‘Der Choral von Leuthen’ (1887) and ‘Aachener Bürger bitten general Jourdan um Schonung der Stadt’ (1905). After the defeat in Russia in 1812, it took another year before Germany was liberated from the French. Six years earlier, Napoleon, the Emperor of France since 1804, defeated the German army at Jena and Auerstedt. The French troops were completely crushed in Russia in 1812. The soldiers are exhausted, dirty, hungry and diseased as can be seen quite well on the face of ‘Portrait of a Soldier’. Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen depicts the defeated French soldiers coming back (to Germany) from Russia in 1812. Right and below: detail of ‘Mitt Mann und Ross und wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen‘. Depicted is an original litho (kunstdrück). Left: Arthur Kampf, ‘Mit Mann und Ross und wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen‘, 1896.
The work was displayed at the ‘Grosse Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung’ in 1897. ‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen’ has been in the possession of the ‘Schlesisches Museum für bildende Künste’ in Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland), but is missing since 1922. This painting is a preliminary sketch for the famous painting ‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen’, which Arthur Kampf created in 1896. With sticker on the backside of ‘Goldfield Galleries, Los Angeles’.
Preliminary sketch for ‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen’ (lost).
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