File talk:Clausewitz.jpg

Is there a better version, which would capture tones, colours and surface of the original painting better? This one has too much contrast effect added by photoshop or some similar tool. Light surfaces are burned to white. --Ukas (talk) 21:11, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

This image is relatively new (1999), may not be out of copyright, and not what it is represented to be.

This is an image of a painting commissioned by the Clausewitz Gesellschaft in 1999 and presented to the Führungsakademie of the German Bundeswehr in Hamburg. Thus it is a newer work and may still be under copyright. It is a copy of the 1830 painting of Carl von Clausewitz by Wilhelm Wach (which in 1999 was presumed lost in World War II, but it has since been recovered). It is technically well done but is a poor likeness of the original. [Info from https://www.clausewitz.com/mobile/graphics.htm.] I would recommend using a photo of the original Wach painting or at least an image made directly from it. For instance, there is one at https://www.clausewitz.com/images/ClausewitzPortrait-ColorTMB4.jpg which Clausewitz.com believes is a composite, created by cloning together an image of the rather pastel painting itself with the strong contrasts of a B&W image of the color lithograph made from the painting by Franz Michaelis. Clausewitz.com has a larger file that they are happy to provide. But I don't know how to go about uploading it to Wikipedia.