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Visual Art Against Wars. Vesa Matteo Piludu Helsinki. Department of Comparative Religion University of Helsinki. Hans Holbein: the Battle 1490. Albert Dürer: The Four Horsemen 1496-8. JACQUES CALLOT (1592-1635): symbols of war 1634. Callot: THE MISERIES OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR.
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Visual Art Against Wars Vesa Matteo Piludu Helsinki Department of Comparative Religion University of Helsinki
Pieter Bruegel the Elder:Battle of moneybags and treasure chests (1567)
Louis Raemaekers, The Gas Fiend, 1916 • Louis Raemaekers was born on April 6th, 1869 in Roermond, the Netherlands, the son of a Dutch country editor and a German mother. • Although his first drawings appeared weekly in the newspaper "Algemeen Handelsblad" from 1906 to 1909, Raemaekers was primarily known as a modestly successful painter rather than a cartoonist. • By 1916 he was to become known worldwide as the greatest chronicler of German brutality and militarism.
Louis Raemaekers • Europe 1916
Louis Raemaekers • War in the XX century
Milton Glaser, cover for Ilse Aichinger's Herod's Children 1963
Milton Glaser, illustration for story by Apollinaire (Andre Sauret, 1975)