Some Works of art and Wartime Patriotic Souvenirs Rendering Field Marshal Hermann Kövess Baron von Kövessháza
Câteva lucrări de artă și suveniruri patriotice de război reprezentându-l pe feldmareșalul Hermann Kövess Baron von Kövessháza

Summary/Abstract: Field Marshal Hermann Baron Kövess von Kövessháza had a personal relation with the Banat and with Transylvania: he was born in Timișoara and at the outbreak of World War I he lived in Sibiu, as the commander of the 12th Austro-Hungarian Army Corps. He was until then a competent, but unremarkable general, close to retirement. During the war he fought successfully against the superior Russian forces in east and central Galicia and later in Russian Poland, then against Serbia. In independent command he overthrew Montenegro and occupied Albania. He fought as well in Northern Italy and later drove the Russian troops almost entirely from Bukovina. From mid-January till early April 1918, he commanded the whole Austro-Hungarian front from the Dniester to the south-eastern corner of Transylvania and to Dobruja and afterwards the Austro-Hungarian forces in the Balkans. However, he is known especially as the final commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian Army (November 2 – December 19, 1918). The bust donated to the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu was made by Hans Mauer, most likely in 1916 (like a little smaller author version in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna), according to the best tradition of the Roman Early Imperial public portrait and of the late Hellenistic heroic sculptural models. It may be considered of a much better quality than the simple wartime patriotic souvenirs and even than many works of art rendering this commander.

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