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Description: | Hungarian artist served as officer with Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian and Eastern Fronts, 1915-1917; moved to London, 1930s
REEL 1: Recollections of period as war artist with Austro-Hungarian army, 1915-1917: appointment as an official war artist and role of Professor Morino; memories of other artists in Vienna; family background and reasons for wanting to be an artist; first exhibitions in Hungary; memory of artists' colony; posted to 48th Infantry Regt on Italian front, 1/1915; first meeting with commanding officer; amusing story of Hungarian writer Molnan and soda syphon; attitude to role of war artist; interest in playing chess and drawing chess players; posted to 1st Army HQ on Italian front; memory of painting commanding officer's portrait; posted to 3rd Army Corps and memory of sketching destroyed Italian fortifications; attitude to casualties; opinion of Austrian artist Revi; memory of Field-Marshal Krautwald; description of conditions at front; posted to 10th Infantry Division; description of subjects chosen and presentation of work to commanding officers; contributions to war artists exhibitions; description of working methods and freedom of movement; posted to Romanian front, autumn 1916; problem of cold weather in mountains; further description of working methods.
REEL 2 Continues: opinion of other painters; posted to Russian front, 1/1917, and problem of cold weather; memory of traveling by sledge and description of landscape; problem of extreme cold; memory of meeting Professor Morino at HQ in castle; posted to 145th Infantry Division; memory of drawing court martial; problem of mud and memory of visiting trenches under artillery fire; reflections on work as war artist including methods of work and materials. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Kemeny, Kalman | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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