
It's about the revolution of peasants in Tyrole in 1809:
they feel familiar with Death on their side,
as they march forward bravely.
This work was considered provocatine,
antipatriotic and too much communistic,
so they denied him a post in
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Albin Egger-Lienz (1868-1926) was an Austrian painter, who dealt with agricultural and historical themes in his works. He served as war painter in the army buring A' World War.
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