Karl Zu Schwarzenberg - Tumblr Posts - Page 2

Metternich: All in all, a 100% successful trip.

Schwarzenberg: We lost Blücher and Wellington along the way.

Metternich: As I said. All in all, a 100% successful trip!

Good morning, day, evening or night to you, honourable ladies and gentlemen! 🌹

Now that’s a “long time no see”… 👋

Due to overall exhaustion I’ve stoped sharing pretty pretty much anything here on Tumblr, including pieces of information on the matter I’ve grown so fond of - Austrian affairs during the age of Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

Almost a year ago I’ve started this blog with a particular idea in mind and I’m still quite passionate about the whole subject! It brings me joy and gets combined naturally with an irresistible urge to depict historical characters who played fairly active roles during that fascinating period of time.

That’s why I’d love to slowly get back on track with a spontaneous artwork I finished last month (well, it’s just that his Birthday is on the 5th of September…)!

It features one of the major figures in the Napoleonic war history - erzherzog Karl von Österreich-Teschen, younger brother of emperor Franz, a capable military commander and responsible administrator who put into practice many essential reforms of the Imperial military apparatus. Later they played an important role in getting Habsburg’s monarchy through the upcoming age of many gales and trials. 🌪️

Unfortunately, the War of 1809 by and large ended his career in the army. Still for a long time he remained one of the key figures in Habsburg’s imperial court, enjoyed a relatively happy life… and got much more opportunities to face omnipresent chancellor Metternich! Naturally. 😅

All in all, one more wholesome historical character to go! 🤲🇦🇹

And since I brought a picture I’m really proud of, I also want to put an informative cherry on top of an illustrative cake - to share a local comical situation featuring the archduke himself. I discovered it while getting familiar with the documents of another prominent Austrian military man…

You can probably guess what’s his name is!

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Yep, it’s a fragment from the field-marshal Schwarzenberg’s letter (however, he was only field-marshal lieutenant at the time) written in the summer of 1806, when he had traveled from his precious Bohemian Worlik-estate to Vienna due to some personal matters and the capital greeted him with… a “tempting” proposal that he personally despised. 😬

"I came yesterday before noon, having made a favorable journey without unfortunate complications. I immediately informed the Archduke [Karl] of my arrival, who told me that I should expect a promotion that would be offered to me by the order of the emperor; then I described to him in the most expressive colors the disgust that this fatal post (the post of the Kaiser’s general-adjutant) causes in me. However, he [the Archduke] insisted rather coldly as the emperor himself wished this appointment. Therefore, I had no choice but to explain myself to His Majesty.

This morning I had gone to an audience, where I was received with extreme courtesy, beyond what I could count on. The Emperor took kindly all my reasons and found beyond doubt complete and inevitable demarche of my health. By doing so, he [Emperor Franz] made me hope that he would eventually come into my terms. And at this moment I returned from the Archduke, who told me that the emperor had spoken of me with great praise in his presence and was going to please me with a handwritten notice sent from Baden [a small resort town located not far from Vienna, favoured by those who served in the capital]. It (this very document) is the evidence of my incredible luck.

Tomorrow I expect to go to Baden, where I’ll meet Fanny, as well as Count Wrbna - to discuss all the pressing matters..."

And that’s how prince Karl spared himself from all the additional court routine that would have undoubtedly come with such post. 💦

Perhaps, his graceful allures sown the first seeds of emperor Franz’ animosity towards him that took roots in following years… But at that time Schwarzenberg certainly was the happiest man alive who could get back to his lovely family as soon as possible.

Thank you for your attention as always! 🌺

Vielen Dank~

"The disease was getting worse with every passing hour, and all the efforts of doctors allowed to avoid death only for a while. On October 15, after a quarter past nine in the evening, the earthly life of our Prince came to an end. He died in the arms of his elder brother, who hurried to join him; in the presence of his wife, his younger sister Eleanore, his niece Theresa, Princess von Lobkowitz, his two younger sons, his inner circle and servants - in all the fullness of condolences, love and loyalty that this earthly realm can grant us. His eldest son, Prince Frederick, summoned from a distant land of Hungary, where his service kept him, could not be present at this sad but sacred moment. The news of what had occurred caught him by surprise in the middle of his journey through Bohemia.

In what place should the Prince's body have rested? Reverence for the glory he had won and love for the Fatherland argued about it on the day of his death..."

Today is the 202nd anniversary of field-marshal Schwarzenberg’s death and I thought that the only right thing to do was to depict him with his admirable wife, Maria Anna, Marianna or - simply but with much-much-much love - Nani, whom prince Karl loved with all of his heart and soul.

(Perhaps, there is too much ancient pathos but it was done with much respect towards both of them. 🏛️🕊️)

Every time I start thinking about the fate of this wonderful family, it brings tears to my eyes. They were blessed with incredibly deep feelings but didn’t have enough time to enjoy them together peacefully…

But they still had some! And that’s the most important thing to know. 🌺

The best relationship-dynamic between two people incoming! 👃❤️👃

It’s not universal, of course, but it works with the majority of my favourite historical duos…

If the spirit of true political partnership doesn’t looks similar to this, I don’t know what else would describe it even more perfectly.👇

I kept that wonderful photo of an exceedingly friendly phone casing for ages, since I knew from the first sight whom it would belong to in a modern!AU of some sort. And now I have a photo of another object (thanks, the almighty Internet) which is like a perfect match to the other! 💜💖

Yep, enormous stress and overwork of the years 1813-1815 is creeping on Metternich - slowly but surely, meanwhile Schwarzenberg has a very straight-forward message behind his amiable and obliging appearances that can be clearly seen between the lines after all he had to deal with at the same period of time…

It is definitely going to lead to a redraw of some sort, thus stay tuned~ ✨

Sexy and undressed VS Undressed and depressed 🇦🇹🇨🇿

Sometimes I forget that I’m dealing with the grown-men in their 40s most of the time… Felt a need to improve my perception of them a little bit with the help of particular busts.

*for God’s sake, Schwarzenberg looks like a huge unhappy Saint Bernard, I just can’t get over it 😩💔*

A dysfunctional austrian family

Hi! I recently saw my drawing of Klemens, Schwarzenberg and L'Aiglon on Twitter, and I thought it's been a while since that, so I saw myself forced to do an update :D

(the drawing itself)

(reference)

More dead people 

Part 2 of 3

Metternich: Remember when you said you weren’t going to interfere with my love life?

Wellington, after setting up a date for Metternich and Schwarzenberg: Nope, doesn’t sound like me at all.

Can’t pass on such an amazing topic for discussion and leave it without any commentary from my part!

Even though I pretty much stopped posting about Austrian affairs in the Napoleonic era, I’m still fascinated by the subject and would love to see some piece of media focusing on Imperial strifes and struggles during the exact same time period. And since nobody wants to do anything, I’d love to do it myself! If I only had such an opportunity. 🇦🇹✨

Like… those events made such an impact on a scale of European and world history. Yet it seems, that despite vast historical research being carried out on the Habsburg’s monarchy general public tends to know literally nothing about fundamentals. The fall of the Holy Roman Empire was not something that occurs every now and then. And people who lived through this whole mess were not just some boring imperialists, reactionaries and conservatives. 🤡

(Frankly speaking, many of them were all of those things at once… Still I whole-heartedly believe that they can be unbelievably captivating and deserve to be explored too!)

Documentaries are always appreciated, however I’d kill for a fully-fledged series about Kaiser Franz, his mind-blowing family and his court because oh man, what a court it was. Also, we desperately need a proper series about the Congress of Vienna! At least 4 seasons of drama, political intrigues and scandalous love affairs. It could be a show of a century! 😩🤌

My bad: I’ve started talking about series - not films - from the beginning, since, in my opinion, themes that I’ve mentioned require series and only series. There are so many things to explore, no film would be able to depict even a hundredth of what is needed to be shown.

Nevertheless, if we get back to the “film” topic, I’ll definitely ask for a decent biopic about Metternich without caricature exaggeration of his evilness and narrow-mindedness. 👏 Metternich 👏 has 👏 rights 👏 too 👏! That eccentric man was broken beyond repair by life-circumstances and it’s unbelievably tragic to witness, what a person could become because of their predisposition and bias.

At last, just to make this whole rant even worse…

Schwarzenberg.

Like, anything focusing him to let people know about someone who confronted Napoleon (much more complexly and excitingly, from my point of view, sorry not sorry) aside tsar Alexander and Wellington.

Das Ende der Geschichte. 😑

Your Ideal Napoleonic Era Movie

If someone gave you like Insane James Cameron Avatar money to make a Napoleonic film and every perfect actor, choreographer, screenwriter, and other logistics you needed was available to you, what you would do?

I'm just curious. I was discussing with a friend about how it was physically impossible to do the entirety of Naps' career in one movie in a satisfactory manner due to the absolute length of his military career.

But I had nothing cognizant to suggest for a movie about Napoleon.

The only thing I want is having the Napster sitting on his secretary's lap for no reason ever provided.

The guy was like a cat with ADHD from what I figure.

Maybe I just want guys chilling in an explicitly not 20th-21st century "we gotta No Homo everything" way.

And obviously, if I had more money on my hands than I knew what to do with for a Napoleonic film, I would hire the prettiest man for a Louis-Francois Lejeune biopic. xD

Always so interesting to me when I come across a historical figure who was noted to be constantly "in poor health" or "of a weak constitution" or some other shorthand for "they were always falling ill, even when others weren't and there was no obvious trigger for it." it really makes me wonder--how many of those people had what we'd today consider a chronic illness, and how many of them were just suffering from subpar sanitation in the past? how many of them had what could reasonably be considered a disability as opposed to just living in a time without modern medicine, and the people around them just couldn't diagnose them because the diagnosis didn't exist yet? this is something that I think about constantly btw

Re-upload in hope that somebody is going to notice and appreciate someone’s hard work.

A comics illustrating specific passage from Metternich’s dual biography with Wilhelmina, Duchess of Sagan.

Metternich's picture is now on public sale at Artaria in the Kohlmarkt, between portraits of Schwarzenberg and of Wellington. Her father is quite a hero, Marie [the eldest child of Klemens and his first wife Eleonore] writes, adding, "Everybody is buying it, and a huge crowd of people are always standing in front of this window." It is not a terribly good likeness; there is a leer in the right eye and Metternich when he sees it declares, "Next time I have my portrait made, it will be without any eyes at all."

It’s that wonderful time of the year…

When many prominent subjects of emperor Franz celebrate their 200-and-something birthdays! 🇦🇹 ✨

Today is a special day, since it’s the birthday of field-marshal Schwarzenberg, a military man, diplomate and movingly loving husband and father who definitely deserved much more than he got during his lifetime.

We’ve known for two years now, and it was one of the best Napoleonic acquaintances I’ve ever made, for sure. :)

Pride Month is inevitably coming to an end and it’s a real shame that I was unable to make any artistic input during this wonderful time of the year. 🏳️‍🌈

The only thing I can contribute at last is this drawing which is three months old already but I always struggle with sharing historical ship-content on this account, as it seems inappropriate in a way. 'Cause you know: all the fascinating/gorgeous/serious/funny historical stuff and then that…

It doesn’t really stop me from loving various Napoleonic rare-pairs with all my heart nonetheless. 😔🤲❤️

Disclaimer: Most of historical characters featured on such arts were undoubtedly straight, had wives, kids, mistresses, etc. But ship-dynamic is very real - as always. ✨