The article discusses art depictions of Count Walter Leslie, made during the Thirty Year’s War. The prints, drawings, and paintings, depict the assassination of generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein and his last remaining allies at Cheb (Eger) in western Bohemia on 25 February 1634, in which Leslie took part. Most of the depictions were illustrations on leaflets that pretentiously informed the public on generalissimo’s death. The analysis of the leaflets’ textual content, however, shows that the same picture(s) were used to illustrate the texts that were sympathetic to Wallenstein as well as those that followed the official interpretation of events in Cheb, i.e., that this were a justified execution of traitors to the empire. The paper is also the first to problematize the fact that the leaflets depicting the deaths of Wallenstein and his generals were printed not only in Germany and Bohemia, but also in Graz.
COBISS.SI-ID: 48369923
The article presents the first attempt at a comprehensive interpretation of the architectural development of the Jurklošter Carthusian monastery's great cloister and its appearance before and after the reconstruction that was financially supported by the Counts of Cilli Frederick II and Ulrich II. The article also refers to several archival sources that have been overlooked to date. These reveal the previously unknown patrocinium of the cemetery chapel in the cloister's atrium as well as, quite reliably, the location of Veronika of Desnice's grave. They also bring new information about the granting of indulgences, permission to erect an altar in the cemetery chapel, and consecrations. Apart from discovering new archival sources and carrying out a comparative analysis with the relevant medieval Carthusian monasteries elsewhere in Europe, the article is methodologically based on the art-historical analysis of two archaeological georadar recordings, of which one has been published for the first time in this very contribution.
COBISS.SI-ID: 45005571
The article addresses various national architectural styles characteristic of architecture of the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy on the territory of Slovenia. It places them within concurrent Austro-Hungarian architectural production and tries to determine their propaganda role. It presents Ivan Jager, Ciril Metod Koch and Ivan Vurnik’s efforts for designing Slovenian national style, while it also discusses examples of Czech and German national styles (the German Neo-Renaissance). In the concluding part, the author disproves the definition of Lászlo Takáts’ oeuvre in Murska Sobota as an example of Hungarian national style.
COBISS.SI-ID: 44812035
The contribution focuses on the issues related to the image of visual propaganda in the Slovenian territory during the First World War; on the origins of its influences; and on the question whether this image reflected any regional characteristics. First, it presents the results of analysing the activities of the central Austro-Hungar¬ian War Press Office (Kriegspressequartier, KPQ) and its Art Department (Kunstgruppe) and Propaganda Department (Propagandagruppe). It underlines the influence of these institutions in the Slovenian territory based on the wartime art exhibitions, activities of war artists, and mechanisms of producing the mass press contents. Based on the archival materials, it also reveals certain previously unknown details regarding the activities of sculptor Friedrich Gornik (1877–1943) and painter Ivan Vavpotič (1877–1943) as war artists and presents Vavpotič’s wartime opus, kept in the Museum of Military History in Vienna, which has, to date, not received scientific attention. In the continuation, the article reveals the results of the analysis that focused on the topics and art motifs of the postcard collection War in Pictures, published in the territory of Slovenia, and pays special attention to identifying the influences and defining the peculiarities that can be associated with the Slovenian territory.
COBISS.SI-ID: 44592387
The article addresses the brief 13th century dispute between the Styrian noble families of Ptuj (German: Pettau) and Liechtenstein. The related texts should be considered as some of the earliest still preserved examples of medieval propaganda of one Styrian family against an other. The paper’s purpose is to highlight the most important narrative source of the time, Ottokar aus der Gaal’s Styrian Rhyme Chronicle. This Chronicle was written by a Liechtenstein vasal, and was meant to portray Frederick V of Ptuj as a coward – specifically during the battle on the Marchfeld. The article discusses the reason behind and the course of the feud, the actual accusation of cowardice, the validity of the accusation and lastly the epilogue of the whole dispute between the parties. Both of the Styrian nobles involved – Otto II of Liechtenstein and Frederick V of Ptuj – obviously came to an agreement sometime in the early 1280s and sealed hostilities with a marriage of their children.
COBISS.SI-ID: 45009411