Pápi, R. Eugène und Adam. Der Prinz und sein Maler

The Leuchtenberg Cycle and the Napoleonic Campaigns of 1809 and 1812.
The battle paintings of Albrecht Adam (1796-1862) acquired their special significance from the fact that Adam had personally taken part in the campaigns and recorded his observations in numerous sketches. The sketches later served him for the creation of the well-known Leuchtenberg cycle, which is presented and analysed in all details for the first time in this book.
After an introduction to the life and work of the painter, all battle pictures of the cycle are shown on double pages. With the assistance of such well-known military historians as Col. P. Carles, P. Coturri, P. Fanfani, P. Foramitti, Y. Martin and M. Santus, each of the battles depicted is then historically classified and the scene depicted is analysed. In this way, each painting opens up to the reader in a new way as he is enabled to put himself in the strategic situation and to recognise the individual troop units and their significance for the respective battle.
In detail, these are for the 1809 campaign: Caldiero; La Piave; Malborghetto; Tarvis; two paintings on St. Michael; Papa; two paintings on St. Michael; Papa; and two paintings on St. Michael. Michael; Papa; two paintings of Raab
and for the campaign of 1812: two paintings of Ostrowno; two paintings of Wittepsk and three paintings of Borodino as well as the retreat.

Albrecht Adam went to Nuremberg as a confectioner's assistant and attended the drawing academy here. The battle painter Johann Lorenz Rugendas planted in the boy the seed for his later artistic work.
Albrecht Adam succeeded in entering the service of a prince and general. He became court and battle painter to Napoleon I's stepson and Viceroy of Italy, Eugène de Beauharnais, who as Duke of Leuchtenberg was married to a Bavarian princess. He accompanied his employer on Napoleon's campaigns in 1809 and 1812, resulting in the battle paintings for the Leuchtenberg Gallery in Munich and the lithographic work "Voyage pittoresque et militaire de Willenberg ..." published in Munich in 1828.
Albrecht Adam is considered one of the most important battle painters today. Unlike his contemporaries, he always attached importance to the clear depiction of the strategic situation.

Contents:
Foreword
Massimo Fiorentino
Dr. Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt

Introduction
Riccardo Papi

The life of the painter
Albrecht Adam
Munich
Campaign of 1809
To Italy
Milan
To Grisons and stay in Monza -. 1810
Ancona and Nördlingen
Through Switzerland to Italy - Idyll on Lake Como - Munich
Campaign to Russia in 1812
Smolensk - Borodino - Battle of the Moskva
Moscow
Return
Munich and Milan
Artist's Life in Munich
The Italian War of 1848
New Work
Afterword

The Creation of the Cycle
The Family and the Paintings
The Legend of the Beauharnais-Leuchtenberg
The Treaty

The Paintings of the Leuchtenberg Cycle
The Paintings of Eugène de Beauharnais

The Campaign of 1809
Battle of Caldiero
Battle of the Piave
Storming of Malborghetto
Battle of Tarvis
St. Michael an der Mur
Pápa - The Prehistory
Battle of Raab
Raab - The Original Painting

The Campaign of Russia 1812
The Three Days of Ostrowno 25. 26. and 27 July 1812
Battle of Vitebsk on 27 July 1812
Battle of Vitebsk on 27. July 1812 by Wilhelm von Kobell
Battle of Borodino or on the Moskva, 7 September 1812
Borodino - For Eugène, 1815
Borodino - For Eugène, 1821
Retreat from Russia
The Missing Paintings

Appendix
The Viceroy's Staff
Composition of the Army of Italy - April 1809
IV. Army Corps, 25 June 1812
Russian Album Albrecht Adam
Sources
Acknowledgements.