Zug der Düsseldorfer Künstler, Fries in vier Blättern

Procession of Düsseldorf Artists, Frieze in four Sheets, 1837

Series titleProcession of Düsseldorf Artists, Frieze in four Sheets

ArtistAndreas Achenbach, Kassel 1815–1910 Düsseldorf

DepictedPeter von Krafft, Düsseldorf 1861–1894

DepictedKarl Christian Breslauer, Warschau 1802–1882 Warszawa

DepictedJohann Adolf Lasinsky, Simmern 1808–1871 Düsseldorf

DepictedAugust Gustav Lasinsky, Koblenz 1811–1870 Mainz

DepictedAndreas Achenbach, Kassel 1815–1910 Düsseldorf

DepictedAlfred Rethel, Aachen 1816–1859 Düsseldorf

DepictedCarl Friedrich Lessing, Wrocław 1808–1880 Karlsruhe

DepictedJohann Wilhelm Schirmer, Jülich 1807–1863 Karlsruhe

DepictedPaul Kiederich, Köln 1809–1850 Düsseldorf

Drucker*inWilhelm Severin, 1809–1888

Colour lithograph

Sheet dimensions27,2 × 52,8 cm

Status

not on display

About the workRenowned for his landscape paintings, Andreas Achenbach reveals a different side here: he provides a satirical glimpse into the Düsseldorf art scene. The frieze, which consists of four colour lithographs, invites the viewer to recognise the figures caricatured within. The “Zug der Düsseldorfer Künstler” (Procession of Düsseldorf Artists) offers a foretaste of Achenbach’s political caricatures, which he would go on to create in the revolutionary year of 1848. In these works he denounced the authoritarianism of the Prussian state and its “poor cultural policy”.

AccessionAcquisition 1919

Provenance[...]; 1.5.1919 angekauft von Fritz Bürmann

Inventory numberK 1919-71d

Contact

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