Motiv einer Seite des Prachtbandes "Kunst & Literatur. Düsseldorf"

Motif of a page of the volume "Kunst & Literatur. Düsseldorf" (Art & Literature. Düsseldorf), 1855

ArtistJohann Baptist Wilhelm Adolf Sonderland, Düsseldorf 1805–1878 Düsseldorf

Artistnach Caspar Johann Nepomuk Scheuren, Aachen 1810–1887 Düsseldorf

Publishing houseArnz & Co., 1816–1859

Colour lithograph

Image dimensions36,5 × 44,5 cm

Sheet dimensions41,1 × 49,5 cm

Depicted locationRhein

Depicted locationSankt Goarshausen

Status

on display, room 009.1

About the workAn ornamental arch populated with figures spans this view of the Lorelei slate rock. According to a nineteenth-century legend, Lorelei was a siren who would sit on this rock and comb her golden hair, confounding sailors with her song and causing them to crash their boats against the rock. Here she is playing the harp. To her right and left is a banner with the beginning of Heinrich Heine’s famous “Lorelei” poem. Caspar Scheuren’s print unites art and literature – just like the name of the luxury volume in which it featured, which was published in 1855.

AccessionAcquisition 1919

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

Inventory numberK 1919-584

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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