Half of my current sketchbook is full of powdered wigs and memes, I have to use that chaotic creative energy somewhere.
Hee! Sounds like a great plan.
i remember there being a footnote about Katte portraits) that the picture was finished after his death, but that it was started after his death too is an interesting new fact
Okay, I dug around! The portrait itself was started when he was alive and possibly finished after the execution, but it looks like there's a later note saying that it was enlarged from an original half-length to one that extended to the knee after the execution, "in order to make the depiction of the beheaded man more representative."
So it looks like at least some commissioning was done after the death. The reason we care is that we're trying to find evidence for how Hans Heinrich felt about his son's death, since FW fans keep saying he was on board with the upgraded sentence and felt it was just. We're finding increasing evidence that while he probably didn't approve of the desertion plan and would have considered some punishment just, the death sentence really upset him and he did honor his son's memory.
This book is on my to-read list, btw, as soon as my German is good enough! I mean, it's reasonably close now, it would just be very slow, and I've got a few items ahead of it to practice on before I get to it, at which point hopefully I'll be reading faster.
Of course the most important thing is getting The Eyebrows™ right since that appears to be what really stood out about him to other people :'D
Right? :P
Which reminds me, there's this painting, which as you can see Wikipedia thinks is of Henri de Catt, but it's pretty clearly the same painting that the Wust local historians have posted a head shot of in the crypt and are claiming is of Hans Hermann von Katte!
On the one hand, I would like to trust the Wust historians over Wikipedia. On the other, - Fine eyebrows. - Chin very oval compared to other Katte portraits. - Does not seem to be mentioned in Kloosterhuis?
Admittedly the first two aren't definitive, and regarding the third, admittedly my German is not great, and admittedly Kloosterhuis makes mistakes (some of which I've caught, despite only having used this book as a reference and not yet having read it), but still. I trust him more than Wikipedia *or* Wust.
I'm inclined toward Catt, but would welcome more evidence in either direction.
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Katte portraits
Date: 2020-10-13 11:04 pm (UTC)Hee! Sounds like a great plan.
i remember there being a footnote about Katte portraits) that the picture was finished after his death, but that it was started after his death too is an interesting new fact
Okay, I dug around! The portrait itself was started when he was alive and possibly finished after the execution, but it looks like there's a later note saying that it was enlarged from an original half-length to one that extended to the knee after the execution, "in order to make the depiction of the beheaded man more representative."
So it looks like at least some commissioning was done after the death. The reason we care is that we're trying to find evidence for how Hans Heinrich felt about his son's death, since FW fans keep saying he was on board with the upgraded sentence and felt it was just. We're finding increasing evidence that while he probably didn't approve of the desertion plan and would have considered some punishment just, the death sentence really upset him and he did honor his son's memory.
This book is on my to-read list, btw, as soon as my German is good enough! I mean, it's reasonably close now, it would just be very slow, and I've got a few items ahead of it to practice on before I get to it, at which point hopefully I'll be reading faster.
Of course the most important thing is getting The Eyebrows™ right since that appears to be what really stood out about him to other people :'D
Right? :P
Which reminds me, there's this painting, which as you can see Wikipedia thinks is of Henri de Catt, but it's pretty clearly the same painting that the Wust local historians have posted a head shot of in the crypt and are claiming is of Hans Hermann von Katte!
On the one hand, I would like to trust the Wust historians over Wikipedia. On the other,
- Fine eyebrows.
- Chin very oval compared to other Katte portraits.
- Does not seem to be mentioned in Kloosterhuis?
Admittedly the first two aren't definitive, and regarding the third, admittedly my German is not great, and admittedly Kloosterhuis makes mistakes (some of which I've caught, despite only having used this book as a reference and not yet having read it), but still. I trust him more than Wikipedia *or* Wust.
I'm inclined toward Catt, but would welcome more evidence in either direction.