Visual Art Against Wars

Vesa Matteo PiluduHelsinki

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

Callot: Plundering a large farmhouse

Callot: Revenge of paesant

Callot: atrocities of warProtestants vs Catholics

Pieter Bruegel the Elder:Battle of moneybags and treasure chests (1567)

Peter Paul Rubens 1577 - 1640: Gods going to war

Peter Paul Rubens, Peace and War (1629-30)

Rubens: Allegory of war 1628

Goya: The Third of May, 1808

Goya: Disaster of War 1810-1821

Goya: Disaster of War 1810-1821

Goya: Disaster of War 1810-1821

Goya: Disaster of War 1810-1821

Arnold Bocklin: Der Krieg (date unknown)

Henri Rosseau: la Guerre 1894

Rober Minor: A perfect soldier 1916

George Grotz: Fit for active service 1916

Frans Masereel 1915

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

Louis Raemaekers: graphic

L. J. Jordaan, De Groene Amsterdammer (1940)

John Hearfield: the Moral of Geneva

Rudolf Schilcher: Blind Power 1937

Picasso: Guernica 1937Bombing attack

Picasso: Peace

Ben Sahn (1960) Stop Bomb H Test

Milton Glaser, cover for Ilse Aichinger's Herod's Children 1963

Milton Glaser, illustration for story by Apollinaire (Andre Sauret, 1975)

Milton Glaser: Peace Works 1971