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This is an illustration for the artictle "Reclaiming the Clausewizian Trinity." Created and copyright by artist Rex Sutton. It is a transparent .gif requiring a black background. |
This is "Clausewitz in Hell," created and copyright by artist Rex Sutton. It illustrates John Keegan's devilish—and ignorant—view of Clausewitz. It is a transparent .gif requiring a black background. |
Most of the images of books appearing on Clausewitz.com webpages,
especially those appearing in the Clausewitz
Bookstore, are from Amazon.com.
This is Clausewitz.com's poster of Clausewitz, available from the Clausewitz.com
Souvenir Shop. It is based on the
lithograph done afterWach's painting by Franz Michelis the younger (see more
on that subject below). The flames in the lettering are from the 9/11 attack
on the World Trade Center.
There are basically three known portraits of Clausewitz (probably only
two from life), with a large number of variations.
| The first is a portrait of Clausewitz in Russian uniform, made c.1813. These are the best images of it we can find (though neither appears to be the full painting). The image at far right is an enhanced version of a picture from ASMZ [Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift] a Swiss military publication. ASMZ attributes the image to Hahlweg Werner, Klassiker der Kriegskunst (Darmstadt 1960), p.256. The location of the original portrait, originally in the possession of the Clausewitz family, is unknown to us. The closer image, again enhanced, is from an unknown source. |   |
Clausewitz in 1815 |
The second portrait, seen in the block to the left, is a detail from the painting "Die Tafelrunde" by Josef Schneider, done in 1815 in Mainz. It is displayed on the Clausewitz Homepage by courtesy of the Headquarters of the German Army Forces Command, Koblenz (HQ GARFCOM). They hold the copyright and have been known to supply high-quality photographs of it to facilitate high-quality print reproduction. This larger image shows most of the central group but is not the complete painting. For a list of who's who in this painting, click HERE. |  |
| The third portrait of Clausewitz may be
the original full-color portrait by Wilhelm Wach, painted—allegedly—in 1830.
It appears in many forms and derivative images. The painting itself is very
small, 26x21 cm. Black and white images are often either from B&W photos
of the original painting or of various copies of the b&w or the color
lithograph, prints of which vary widely in quality. Also, numerous drawings
and posterizations have been made based on these basic images.
This image is copyrighted by the owners, who prefer to remain anonymous. If you wish to use this image, on the web or in print (we have a higher-resolution version), you must request permission through The Clausewitz Homepage (click HERE). We will convey your request to the owners.
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This black & white detail (above left), allegedly from the lithograph done afterWach's painting by Franz Michelis the younger, is quite different from the color litho (above right) and more like the painting--but it appears to be yet another distinct work. Each print is unique, and there appears to be a great deal of variation among them. Below is a watercolor, clearly drawn from some version of Wach's portrait, widely used in French treatments of Clausewitz. (See more variations below.)
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   The Wach/Michelis image itself is probably not original. It appears to us as if it were made from a mirror image of the Schneider portrait—reversed (as at left) to make it appear new. |
The similarity is even more striking in this color lithograph (note the similarities in shading on the face), which raises the issue, which came first, the painting or the color lithograph? |
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anonymous. If you wish to use this image, on the web or in print (we have
a higher-resolution version), you must request permission through The
Clausewitz Homepage (click HERE).
We will convey your request to the owners.
AKG (see contact info below) can provide either transparency, print or high-res scan (356 DPI, opens as 25 megabites, jpeg not tiff format) of the color lithograph portrait in either color or black & white. Charges will depend on your intended use, number of copies to be reproduced, etc. These images are thumbnails.
AKG London Ltd
5 Melbray Mews
158 Hurlingham Road
London
SW6 3NS
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7610 6103
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7610 6125
email: enquiries@akg-images.co.uk
If you are outside the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand or Hong Kong, please contact the Berlin office:
Archiv fur Kunst und Geschichte
Teutonenstrasse 22
14129 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 30 80485200 Fax: +49 (0) 30 80485500
If you are in France, please contact the Paris office:
AKG Phototheque
67 Rue Notre-Dame des Champs
75006 Paris
France
There are original bronze busts of Clausewitz (some quite different
from one another) at the German Army's War College; the U.S. National
War College in Washington, DC (which is the one shown above, done c.2000
in Hamburg by an artist named Büsching, based on the Bundeswehr's
version); and the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA.
Here's a bust shown on the Clausewitz
Gessellschaft's website. In 1989, at what is now the Carl von Clausewitz
Kaserne in Burg, the East German Volksarmee unveiled this bronze
bust.
A smaller, U.S.-made bust is available to buyers HERE.
And here's one available for sale from Historia
Souvenir, in Leipzig, Germany.
(The bust, c.60mm high, is described here.)
Buste des Generals Clausewitz im Zeughaus zu Berlin.
From the Burg Zeitung, "Die Jahre des Carl von Clausewitz in
seiner Geburtsstadt: Mit zwolf Lebensjahren aus Burg Entsshwunden?"
http://www.michael-koch.de/burg/zeitung/V-111200.jpg
Also from the Clausewitz Gessellschaft,
the "Ehrenmedaille General Carl von Clausewitz" for outstanding achievement
at the German war college.
References to Clausewitz on video are pretty rare. Here are a few:
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1. There is a good, substantive, discussion in the film Crimson Tide. The content is a little bit debatable (but we've never seen anything on Clausewitz that wasn't debatable) in the theoretical argument scene between Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington. I use it at the National War College as a prelude to seminar and it always sparks things off. You have to watch it closely--we think it's a valid analysis, but there are some tricks in it. For instance, Clausewitz does not argue that the commander who ignores the political issues is the one most likely to win, but he does make an argument in very similar language that the opponent who considers his objectives to be worth a higher price has an advantage--which was obviously the case in, say, Vietnam. |
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2. There's a commercial film made in 1959, starring Jeff Chandler and Fess Parker: The Jayhawkers, a sort of cloak-and-dagger western about the guerrilla war in "Bleeding" Kansas before the Civil War. It has an amusing breakfast-table scene in which Clausewitz and Jomini are mentioned. That makes a nice filmclip for "Americanizing" the subject, but otherwise it's content-free and the film itself is wildly inaccurate, historically speaking. |
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3. Paul Schmelzer reports that he saw/heard a reference to Clausewitz on the '50s Western TV show "Bronco." The bad guy (a former Union Officer turned bank robber) described Bronco as possessing what Clausewitz called "a genius for War," and tried to hire him for his gang, which robbed banks with military precision. |
4. The Army War College actually had the poor taste :-) to record Dr. Christopher Bassford on the subject of Clausewitz and has apparently placed that video on-line in whole or in bits and pieces (we're not sure—it's not on a public-access page) for access by nonresident students. POC is Dr. David Birdwell in the AWC's Department of Distance Learning.
5. Lastly, there's a business-oriented video on Clausewitz made by Edward de Bono, part of his "The Greatest Thinkers" series, but it's atrocious—don't waste your time with it.
Please alert the Clausewitz Homepage editor if you are aware of any more useful listings.
 Color Photo. |
 Before restoration. |
 Watercolor. |
Nazi Propaganda Poster
The Nazi Party's Central Propaganda Office (the Reichspropagandaleitung
) produced a weekly poster with a quotation that could be displayed in party
offices, public buildings, etc."The time is yours. What happens with it depends
on you. Clausewitz." (#37 for 8-14 September 1940). SOURCE
Variations on Clausewitz's portraits
Postage Stamp
A child's drawing.
Jomini and Clausewitz
By Anselm Kiefer,
c.1982/87. Woodcuts and acrylic on cut and pasted papers
125 3/8 x 151 3/4 in. (317.8 x 385.4 cm)
French versions.
A Chinese version.
A Russian version.
Clausewitz's tomb.
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