On sentry duty. Painting by georg friedrich kersting (1815). Nationalgalerie berlin. Kersting here depicted three fellow volunteers in the lützow free corps who had died in battle in 1813: heinrich hartmann, law student (smoking a pipe); theodor körner, poet and dramatist (behind hartmann); and friedrich friesen, co-founder of the gymnastics movement (turnbewegung). Object Type: painting. Date: 1815. Dimensions: height: 46 cm (18.1 in) ; width: 35 cm (13.7 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Alte Nationalgalerie. Auf Vorposten
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