A Ruined Church in the Forest

c. 1834

Carl Blechen

Artist, German, 1798 - 1840

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, 27-28 February 1933, no. 688; ill.). Alice Hanile, née Bloem, Wistinghausen; Angelika von Lüttichau-Haniel, Bad Godesberg. Acquired 1979 by Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Carl Blechen: zwischen Romantik und Realismus, Nationalgalerie Berlin, 1990, 180, no. 247.

2008

  • L'Age d'or du romantisme allemand: Aquarelles et dessins à l'époque de Goethe, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, 2008: 54, cat. no. 3.

2010

  • German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 29, 38, 155, 220-221, no. 81 (entry by Hinrich Sieveking).

Bibliography

1990

  • Sieveking, Hinrich. "Zeichen der Zeit: von Füssli bis Menzel. Aspekte deutscher Zeichenkunst der Goethezeit." In Zeichnung und Moderne: Modelle zeichnerischer Verfahren. Alsfeld, 1990: 126 and 62, fig. 24.

Inscriptions

upper right in brown ink: 580[?] (fragmentary); verso in brown ink: Ciroul...; in graphite: 1272

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64537846


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