Bild und Erinnerungsort. Carl Rottmanns Schlachtfeld von Marathon
2008; Deutscher Kunstverlag; Volume: 71; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2569-1619
Autores Tópico(s)Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
ResumoA study of Carl Rottmann's c. 1849 painting Das Schlachtfeld von Marathon in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin. With its title, this work refers to the site where the final battle in the war between the Greek and the Persians took place in 490 B.C. However, nothing in it seems to evoke a battle or even be identified as a battlefield; on the contrary, the gaze falls on a landscape whose elements and external borders are identified only with great effort. Between the memory of the battle and the physical presence of the battlefield, there seems to open a gap that could not be more conspicuous. This image of a place of memory where there is nothing to see is to be understood in the context of a practice that emerged at the beginning of the 19th century, which newly governed the perception of the historical dimension of places and landscapes.
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