Battle of Wahlstatt near Liegnitz
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Heroisation of a defeat
This porcelain painting depicts the Battle of Wahlstatt south of Liegnitz on 9 April 1241, in which the Mongol army defeated the Polish-German army of knights. The central motif of the painting is the death of the Piast Prince Henry II of Silesia, also known as Henry the Pious. Despite the devastating defeat, the battle was later depicted as a success.
The Mongol army had already conquered large parts of Russia and south-east Europe when it defeated Duke Henry II in Silesia.
The trauma of this defeat was often compensated for visually by depicting the foreigners as Babarars. As the Mongols quickly withdrew, posterity celebrated the Battle of Wahlstatt as the salvation of the Christian West from the heathens.
The painting bears a signature on the reverse: “Painted in the porcelain manufactory of Mr ‘August Rappsilber’ in Königszelt 1877, J. Weissig”.
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