Provenance

Hamburger Kunstverein

Explore selected works

The image shows a detailed line drawing of a cluster of lilies. The drawing features blossoms and buds on tall stems. The color palette is limited to black lines on a beige background. The flowers, stems, and leaves are prominently displayed, with a vertical composition.
Philipp Otto Runge, A Stalk of Lilies with Six Blooms, 1808, pen and black ink over graphite on very light green laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.31

A Stalk of Lilies with Six Blooms

Philipp Otto Runge · 1808 · pen and black ink over graphite on very light green laid paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.31

A man and woman stand look away from us toward a moonlit, rocky, coastal inlet with misty, midnight-blue mountains along the horizon in this shadowy, horizontal landscape painting. The sky fills the top two-thirds of the painting, and the people are small in scale against the landscape. Along the horizon, pearl-white clouds float against a lilac-purple and pale pink haze. The sky deepens to ultramarine blue above, and a band of nickel-gray clouds sweeps in across the top edge of the painting to partially obscure the bright white moon, to our right of center. The moonlight gleams on the water below, which winds around the rocky coastline and small islands dotted with trees. Closer to us, the land stretches across the lower edge of the composition. Hulking, rocky formations line the left edge of the painting, and a wooden structure with mossy growth along its roof sits to our right. Long poles lean against the building’s roof. At the lower center of the painting, the woman, to our left, links her arm through the man’s elbow. She wears a long, rust-brown dress and a broad brimmed bonnet, while he wears a dark, knee-length coat and a round cap. They stand near the water’s edge, silhouetted against the bright reflections of the soft purple and pink sky above. Out in the water but close to the shoreline, brown nets hang like slings from a line of twenty-three, irregularly spaced poles. A three-masted ship is anchored near the shore to our right. Two rowboats, one with a person inside, and a few more sailboats are pulled up along a dock beyond the ship. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower right, “Dahl Januar 1827”.
Johan Christian Dahl, View from Vaekero near Christiania, 1827, oil on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1999.99.1

View from Vaekero near Christiania

Johan Christian Dahl · 1827 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1999.99.1

This is a drawing showing a skeletal figure and a man with a halberd. The illustration features a skeletal figure holding an hourglass, interacting with an armored man carrying a halberd. The background includes a simple architectural element like a wall or a fence. The scene is enclosed within a rectangular frame on a page with text above and below the image. The style of the drawing resembles early 16th-century woodcuts. The text on the page is written in Gothic script.
Albrecht Dürer, Death and the Lansquenet, 1510, woodcut and letterpress text on two sheets of laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1948.11.61

Death and the Lansquenet

Albrecht Dürer · 1510 · woodcut and letterpress text on two sheets of laid paper ·  Accession ID  1948.11.61