Photo: Photo Credit: National Maritime Museum
© National Maritime Museum
Midget Submarine Attack on the 'Tirpitz', 22 September 1943
1944
oil on mahogany panel
40.6h x 106.7w (cm)
Narrative
Official War Artist
Wartime
Landscapes | Gardens
Weather | Storm | Wind | Rain | Snow | Mist | Fog
Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports
Seascapes | Coastal Scenes
Birds Eye View
Panoramas
Bonfires | Flames | Smoke
Commissioned Works
Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist
RA Summer Exhibitions
- Science and Art at the Royal Academy, 1945 by A. T. Hopwood, Nature, June 9 1945, Vol 155, p688"Of the war pictures, "Torpedoing of the Tirpit? by Midget Submarines" by Richard Eurich (No. 569) gave me most pleasure. No minefields, even in the clear waters of the Norwegian fiords, were ever so visible as these--never was there such a whelk as crawls on the bottom of this sea, yet all have their place in this picture, and no one would wish them away. Whether or not we have here an echo of the Futurist 'plastic interpenetration of matter' I neither know nor care ; drawing, design and painting are all good, and the picture pleases me."
Provenance & Events
References:
Catalogues
- "Edge of All the Land” Southampton (1994)"; Southampton City Art Gallery / Nicholas Usherwood. [Figure 35]
Books
- "Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist"; Edward Chaney and Christine Clearkin (contributions by James Hyman, David McCann and Peyton Skipwith), pub. 2003: Paul Holberton Publishing, ISBN 1903470110 [Cat 30, illustrated but not exhibited]
- "Night Raid on Portsmouth Docks’ signed 1941 - A Wartime Incident by Richard Eurich (1903-1992), THE ELUSIVE MR BEARE AND OTHER ESSAYS"; Nigel Surry, Fortune Press, 2015
Archive
- "Art UK"; [artuk.org]
Collections
- "National Maritime Museum"; [Object Details]
Other
- "Art UK Curations 3"; [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
