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The Everyday Life of Cadets at the Wiener Neustadt Military Academy as Represented on the Paintings by Bernhard Albrecht (1785-1793)

In 1778 Feldmarschalleutenant Count Francis Joseph Kinsky (1739-1805) became Localdirector of the Wiener Neustadt Military Academy and implemented his Enlightenment ideas on education in the real life of the Academy, which he directed from 1778 to 1805. Next to the written testimonies (ego-documents) of the cadets themselves, thirteen gouache paintings made by Bernhard Albrecht (1755-1822), appointed art teacher at the Academy from 1788 represent particularly valuable visual sources for the research on the everyday life of this institution. They illustrate different training activities such as riding, exercising, simulating the battle situations, balancing, night shooting, swimming and even skating. The rather small paintings (55X77cm) were initially decorating the imperial boarding house, and now eleven of them are part of the Museum at the still existing Theresian Military Academy, whereas two are placed in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna. In this paper, the scenes of these activities will be interpreted as set against the enlightened curriculum created by Count Kinsky.

Wiener Neustadt Military Academy, cadets, military education, Bernhard Albrecht, Franz Joseph Kinsky

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