View of the Rhine in Düsseldorf - near the former Island of Golzheim, ca. 1865
Oil on cardboard, on plywood
Dimensions without frame38,8 × 63,5 cm
Dimensions with frame56 × 81,2 × 6,5 cm
About the workWhen Theodor Hagen painted this oil study, he was a student of the renowned landscape painter Oswald Achenbach at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Such small-format studies served as artistic exercises or models for later paintings and were not yet considered as full-fledged works of art. Inspired by French artists, they were increasingly created outdoors in nature. Hagen's preference for a more natural scenery is already evident in this early work. From 1871, he trained many open-air painters in Weimar as a professor of landscape painting.
AccessionGift 1919
Provenance1919 erworben durch Schenkung von der Ehefrau des Künstlers, Marie Hagen
Inventory numberM 4225
