Picturi puțin cunoscute cu subiecte din războiul de independență datorate lui Johann Nepomuk Schonberg
Little-known paintings with subjects from the war of independence due to Johann Nepomuk Schonberg

Summary/Abstract: At the outbreak of the Oriental War of 1877, known in Romania as the War of Independence, many war correspondents and special artists went to the battlefields south of the Danube, in Bulgaria. One of them was the Austrian artist Johann Nepomuk Schônberg who sent his drawings to magazines such as Le Monde Illustré, Ueber Land und Meer and The Illustrated London News. He accompanied his sketches with long letters which the editors used as articles from an eye witness. In his first correspondence he offered a contemptuous image of the Romanian Army. According to his standards, which were those of the Austro-Hungarian Army, the Romania soldier lacked stamina and military behaviour. His sketches rendered a pitiable aspect of the infantryman, poorly dressed and badly drilled by young officers who were much more concerned with not tamlsching their new uniforms. Later, Schônberg changed his opinion of the Romania peasant-tumed-soldier while seeing him fighting. He eventually became a great admirer of the soldier's courage and daring attacks against the Turks and pictured him In due colors.

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