PROPAGANDA AND WAR The Allied Front During the First World War
I. Dünya Savaşı’nda İttifak Cephesinde Savaş ve Propaganda | Ömer M. Koç Koleksiyonu
Preface by Ömer M Koç with contributions by Bahattin Öztuncay, Sinan Kuneralp and Edhem Eldem
Published by Vehbi Koç Vakfi and Koç University
- Publisher : Koc Üniversitesi Yayinlari (January 1, 2015)
- Language : Turkish/English
- Paperback : 215 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9756959924
- ISBN-13 : 978-9756959923
Book of the exhibition
Marking the 100th anniversary of the Great War, the exhibition Propaganda and War displays selected historical objects and archival documents of Ottoman artifacts and memorabilia from World War I from the Ömer M. Koç Collection.
Curated by Bahattin Öztuncay and designed by Yeşim Demir, War and Propaganda features innumerable historical documents and a wide range of objects, including commemorative posters and postcards, flags, ceramics, symbols of honor, awards and medals, as well as documentation of activities carried out by the states to marshal the support of the people by the Ottoman Empire and its allied countries.
Propaganda and War provides insight into the cultural exchanges that transpired during the war, including artistic activities, reciprocal visits, educational cooperations, and the coordination and production of propaganda tools carried out by Germany, Austro-Hungary Empire, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire, and also offers important clues to understanding present-day international relations.
Also on display is a rare album of plates ‘Paintings and Drawings from Turkey’ by Wilhelm Viktor Krausz[1] painted between 1915 and 1916 during the war. The first known portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is contained in this volume.
Generalissimo Enver Pascha and The first known portrait of Mustafa Kemal by Austrian painter Wilhelm Victor Krausz. (Anafartalar / 1916)
The first portrait of Mustafa Kemal was made by Austrian painter Wilhelm Victor Krausz during the Battle of Anafartalar.
Mustafa Kemal was not yet a general in those days, but he was known for his knowledge and superiority in warfare. His future was bright. As learned from the late ambassador, Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın, who was Atatürk's general secretary, was a member of the parliament, and stood next to Atatürk almost every day, this Austrian painter found Atatürk's physical appearance very interesting, and took his photo with a bellows camera he used on the front with his permission. and he made a portrait with Enveriye, one of the serpuş/headgear of that period.
[1] Wilhelm Viktor Krausz (b. March 21, 1878 in Neutra, then Hungary; d. April 29, 1959 in Baden near Vienna) was an Austrian painter.
Krausz studied at the Vienna Academy under Franz Rumpler, in Paris with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury, and with Heinrich von Zügel at the Munich Academy. Study trips took him to England, Holland, Spain and Switzerland.
During the First World War I tried to get Krausz accepted as a war painter in the k.u.k. War press headquarters, which was granted relatively late, on November 22nd, 1917. With the rank of captain, he first painted in the Balkans. Numerous portraits a.o. of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and of Sultan Mehmet V. Krausz was listed in the lists of the war press headquarters until December 1918. [1] After the war he portrayed numerous Viennese artists such as the actors Hans Thimig and Josef Kainz. Your pictures will be shown in the gallery of the Vienna Burgtheater.
Wilhelm Viktor Krausz died (as a US citizen, last residing in 230 Central Park South, New York City) on April 29, 1959 during a stay at a spa in Baden near Vienna. From 1919 he was married to Marianne Krausz, née Cohn, widowed Schick († June 13, 1938). He was buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall.