A strange 1940 bavarian painting by Paul Mathias Padua Can you tell me its whereabouts ? |
Read at the bottom of this page the answer a reader sent me |
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| I found this postcard at the sunday flea market near the
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan. I immediately wondered it this was not a kind of german
realist painting aping another more known. Back home I looked at the painting I thought
the above was inspired from, Géricault's Radeau de la Méduse, the perfect allegory of
human sufferings for which he had taken so many drawings of agonising people in Paris
hospitals.
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But this is not it, although it may have inspired the german painting. In any case, agonising people on a raft could not inspire official nazi art, and the soldiers above are much more in control, and much less expressive. They all look sad, except for the leader, who look like if he were summoning Odin to free them from the torment.
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| Then a reader sent me the picture above, Washington
Crossing the Delaware, by the german painter Emmanuel Leutze, the original of
which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and a copy at Washington Crossing,
Pennsylvania. What do you think ? Finally, I received an email in June 199 from a reader in the Netherlands :
After all, somebody finally found my bottle in the sea !
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