"A Portrait of Clausewitz as a Young Officer" Topic

"The famous and often reprinted portrait of the West's most influential military theorist, Carl von Clausewitz, was painted by Wilhelm Wach in early 1830s. One of Prussia's most fashionable artists of the era, Wach portrayed the officer as a serious man with melancholic look and penetrating but sad eyes.

Wach's painting, made either in the last years of Clausewitz's life or even postmortem, casts the military theorist as rather gloomy in demeanor. This image seems to confirm the unfavorable perception that many people hold: an unhappy staff officer disenchanted with the turbulent world around him who scribbled his thoughts in long, complicated, dejected sentences. But would our perception of Clausewitz and his seminal work, On War, change if we could see him as a young, ambitious, and energetic officer? If, instead of a withdrawn and reticent character, he appeared as a sympathetic, adventurous man with a tendency for self-depreciating jokes and sassy comments about his superiors? Would a more likable image of its creator make On War an easier read?…"
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Armand

Quite interesting Armand,

Thanks!

A votre service mon ami!. (smile)

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Armand

Nice drawing.

It shows Clausewitz as Capitaine or Major (promotion on 29 August 1810) of the Generalstab (general staff), in which he served from 19 July 1810 until he was granted his leave on 23 April 1812.

Well done, yet again, Armand. Very well done.

Nice one. The link which also leads to Konigstein fortress is also good, showing an interesting cannon with yellow trim on the fortress walls.

Happy you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile)

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Armand