TY - RPRT A1 - Wunderlich, Claudia T1 - Remarks on Alajos Alois Unger’s The Recapture of Győr 1598 (1840, Hungarian National Gallery) on the occasion of the 425th anniversary of the landmark event N2 - The oil painting The Recapture of Győr 1598 (1840) is one of the two works by Alajos Alois Unger (Győr 1814-1848) in the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery since the 1970s. It depicts a landmark event in the Ottoman Wars that had an immense impact on the whole of Christian Europe, but outside of Hungary it has been largely forgotten. In the past two decades, considerable insight was gained into the obscure painter Unger, his works, family and networks. Playing-card maker Mátyás Mathias Unger the Elder was his father and Alajos Unger must have been the designer behind the family’s prized playing-cards. Unger was trained at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Vienna between 1833 and 1842, particularly under Leopold Kupelwieser and Johann Ender. All this new insight enables a more detailed interpretation of this history painting frequently displayed and its religious and political meaning. It is part of an unusual cycle of patriotic Hungarian artwork glorifying the House of Habsburg. KW - Alajos Alois Unger (1814-1848) KW - The Recapture of Győr KW - 19th century painting KW - Ottoman Wars KW - Habsburg Monarchy Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:863-opus-24318 ER -