Harz Landscape near Regenstein, 1853

ArtistCarl Friedrich Lessing, Wrocław 1808–1880 Karlsruhe

Oil on canvas

Dimensions without frame58 × 89 cm

Dimensions with frame68,7 × 99,8 × 6 cm

Depicted locationHarz

Status

on display, room 010.2

About the workLandscape painting in Düsseldorf in the mid-nineteenth century could be a sociable affair. People went out into nature together to find motifs. Similar to this view of the Harz Mountains by Carl Friedrich Lessing is a surviving work from the same year by the American painter Worthington Whittredge, who was temporarily based in Düsseldorf. Both artists were presumably at this viewpoint together. What is rather unusual for Lessing is that he dispensed with figures and focused entirely on the landscape.

AccessionAcquisition 1990

Provenance[...]; o.D. vermutlich Dan Grossmann, New York; 1990 angekauft von der Galerie Paffrath, Düsseldorf

Inventory numberM 1990-2

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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