{"id":14609,"count":0,"description":"Oskar Mert\u00e9 (* October 23, 1872, in Munich; \u2020 June 23, 1938, in Bad Aibling) was a German painter, draftsman, and illustrator.\n\nOskar Mert\u00e9 was born in Munich, the son of painters Heinrich Mert\u00e9 (1838\u20131917) and Emilie Mert\u00e9. From 1884 until April 29, 1891, he studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Karl Raupp.\n\nFor many years, Mert\u00e9 worked for the publications Fliegende Bl\u00e4tter and the Deutsche Kavalleriezeitung. He focused primarily on battle scenes and equestrian painting.\n\nHe became a student and collaborator of the battle painter Franz Alexeyevich Roubaud. Under Roubaud\u2019s direction, Mert\u00e9, along with Leopold Sch\u00f6nchen and Karl H. Frosch, created the 115-meter-long and 14-meter-high Panorama of the Siege of Sevastopol from 1901 to 1904, and later, from 1911 to 1912, worked on the Panorama of the Battle of Borodino.\n\nMert\u00e9 primarily illustrated children\u2019s books with stories of soldiers\u2019 lives, and many of his works were published as postcards.","link":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/c\/artist-en-2\/oskar-merte-en\/","name":"Oskar Mert\u00e9","slug":"oskar-merte-en","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":1857,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/14609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/1857"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=14609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}