Arthur Kampf, Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen

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‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen’
Biography: Arthur Kampf

Lithography

The original oil-version of ‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen’, which Arthur Kampf created in 1896, depicts the defeated French soldiers coming back (to Germany) from Russia in 1812. The soldiers are exhausted, dirty, hungry and diseased. The French troops were completely crushed in Russia in 1812. Six years earlier, Napoleon, the Emperor of France since 1804, defeated the German army at Jena and Auerstedt. After the defeat in Russia in 1812, it took another year before Germany was liberated from the French. In the Battle of Leipzig, October 1813, the foundation was created for the German Empire of 1871.
‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen’ has been in the possession of the ‘Schlesisches Museum für bildende Künste’ in Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland), but is missing since 1922. The work was displayed at the ‘Grosse Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung’ in 1897.

‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen’ displayed at the ‘Grosse Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung’ in 1897. Depicted in the exhibition catalog.

‘Mit Mann und Ross und wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen’ are also the first words of a German folksong from 1813.

The slogan ‘Mit Mann und Roß und Wagen hat sie der Herr geschlagen“ was later used by the Nazis when they invaded Poland. Invasion of Poland, 1939: ‘Mit Mann und Ross und Wagen, so hat sie Gott geschlagen!’

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