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Black Hussars

Posted by FatFather on 27 Nov 2018, 18:36

Hi,
It will be long story, which was started in 1807, maybe even earlier...
BlacK Hussars appears from time to time in my life.
Few years ago I found this set Zvezda:
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I fought about using them to little dio about battle Heilsberg 1807, but in this year some prussian hussars regiments have hats in new style. I looked the first on R. Knotel paint:
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And later on W. Kossak paint:
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This painting has interesting story. Kossak painted this with mistake:
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Do you see this? French infantry have fault hats. More interesting is that Kossak painted his own face to Black Hussar which caught french eagle. Kossak's face:
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And painter in work:
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As you see, now, Hussar has new, another face! In this time Poland was taken in Prussia, Austria and Russia occupasion, and polish patriots were irritated. How polish famous painter could made this? His face in enemies soldier? Kossak made changes.

This is a third picture with this scene. I had big hapiness, I saw only fragment, but it was big and beatiful:
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And the end. From few weeks I was painting, those figures:
8. regiment prussian hussars, set from Hat
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5. regiment prussian hussars, set from Waterloo
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Thx for watching and endurance :-D
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Posted by Marc the plasticsfan on 17 Jan 2019, 20:58

Very interesting history behind the painting. Thanks for sharing
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