War Painting and the Soldier as the New Man : Karl Sterrer’s Pilot Portraits and the Ambivalent Face of Heroism during the First World War

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/rihajournal/article/view/94570/91494" target="_blank" >https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/rihajournal/article/view/94570/91494</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/riha.2023.1.94570" target="_blank" >10.11588/riha.2023.1.94570</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

War Painting and the Soldier as the New Man : Karl Sterrer’s Pilot Portraits and the Ambivalent Face of Heroism during the First World War

Original language description

With his series of pilot portraits during the First World War, the Viennese painter KarlSterrer made a significant contribution to the depiction of a modern heroic figure. It has not yet been analysed in the context of themodern soldier and his masculinity, which came under strain in the brutal trench warfare. At the mercy of an abstract war machine, the common soldiers could hardly find heroic moments to impress. Only a few new types of troops, such as the aviators, succeeded in doing so, which gave them a great deal of public recognition and made them part of modern visual culture. Ultimately,they were seen as New Man, above the hor-rors of modern warfare. At the same time, they were also role models for a noble habitus that met the phenomena of modernity calmly. This aspiration was evident in their elegant countenance, their extraordinary physiognomy. Unlike previous attempts inart history, however, this article provides a look at the conservative take on the subject– by a traditional, academic artist. This focus underlines the extent to which old andnew soldierly values overlapped in modernity and became actualised by different artists regardless of their political orientation. The same applies to the stylistic realisation, which intertwines traditional elements with those of new movements such as New Objectivity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

RIHA Journal

ISSN

2190-3328

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2023

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

1-28

UT code for WoS article

001027140400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85171889440