The Art of the Viennese Watercolor
Until 13 May 2018
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Transparent lightness, brilliant colors, and a generally atmospheric impression are the special qualities of 19th-century Viennese watercolor painting. Virtuosic city views and landscapes, detail-rich portraits, genre paintings, and floral works comprise the rich motivic repertoire featured in this glorious blossoming of Austrian art.
The Viennese watercolor’s heyday was the Biedermeier era: Jakob Alt, Matthäus Loder, Thomas Ender, and Peter Fendi number among its most important artistic figures.
Likewise outstanding are the exquisite works by Rudolf von Alt from his over 70-year career. His masterful watercolors run from the Biedermeier era all the way to the rise of the Secession movement around 1900.
This exhibition presents a veritable parade of exceptionally beautiful pictures, including the ALBERTINA Museum’s own treasures as well as important loan works, all of which pay impressive tribute to the high standing of the Viennese watercolor in the context of 19th century art.
On view from 16 February until 13 May 2018.
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Please note that this catalogue is only available in German.
Ed. by Maria Luise Sternath
2018
336 pages
24,5 x 28,5 cm | Hardcover / half-linen
German EUR 15,00
Jakob Alt: View from the Artist’s Studio toward Dornbach, 1836
Pencil, watercolor
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Moritz Michael Daffinger: Portrait Marie Daffinger, 1828
Watercolor on ivory, glaze heightenings
(Private collection, Vienna)
Moritz Michael Daffinger: Herb-Paris, after 1840
Pencil, Watercolor
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Anton Romako: Tiger, 1870
Pencil, watercolor, body color
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
August von Pettenkofen: "Gypsy Camp", 1855
Watercolor
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Carl Schütz: Stock im Eisen Square, Vienna, 1779
Pen and black ink, watercolor
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Laurenz Janscha: View from the Reisenberg towards Vienna, ca. 1796
Pencil, watercolor
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Johann Knapp: Moss Roses, ca. 1800
Watercolor, body color
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Thomas Ender: Grossglockner with Pasterze Glacier, 1832, 1832
Watercolor, body color, scratched-out highlights
(Private collection, Collection Archduke Johann)
Rudolf von Alt: The Dachstein Mountain from Lower Lake Gosau, 1838
Watercolor, scratched-out highlights
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Carl Schindler: On the Dance Floor, 1840
Pencil, watercolor
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Peter Fendi: Princesses Elise and Fanny Liechtenstein with their Governess, 1838
Pencil, watercolor
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Matthäus Loder: Waterfalls in the Tischler Cirque near Gastein, 1827
Watercolor, body color, on grey-blue paper
(Private collection, Collection Archduke Johann)
Rudolf von Alt: Alservorstadt, Vienna, 1872
Watercolor, body color, scratched-out highlights
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Rudolf von Alt: Anlauftal Valley near Gastein, 1893
Watercolor, body color, scratched-out highlights
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Jakob Alt: View of Vienna from the ‘Spinner at the Cross’, 1817
Watercolor, body color
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Rudolf von Alt: Graben, Vienna, 1836
Brush and greyish-black ink, watercolor, body color, glaze heightenings
(Private collection, Vienna)
Rudolf von Alt: Street in Palermo, 1867
Watercolor
(Privatbesitz, Wien / Courtesy Kunsthandel Giese & Schweiger, Wien)
Eduard Gurk: At Hradčany in Prague, ca. 1838
Watercolor
(The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Wilhelm August Rieder: Franz Schubert, 1825
Pencil, watercolor, on cardboard
(Wien Museum)
Pencil, watercolor (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Watercolor on ivory, glaze heightenings (Private collection, Vienna)
Pencil, Watercolor (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Pencil, watercolor, body color (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Watercolor (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Pen and black ink, watercolor (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Pencil, watercolor (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Watercolor, body color (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Watercolor, body color, scratched-out highlights (Private collection, Collection Archduke Johann)
Watercolor, scratched-out highlights (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Pencil, watercolor (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Pencil, watercolor (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Watercolor, body color, on grey-blue paper (Private collection, Collection Archduke Johann)
Watercolor, body color, scratched-out highlights (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Watercolor, body color, scratched-out highlights (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Watercolor, body color (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Brush and greyish-black ink, watercolor, body color, glaze heightenings (Private collection, Vienna)
Watercolor (Privatbesitz, Wien / Courtesy Kunsthandel Giese & Schweiger, Wien)
Watercolor (The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Pencil, watercolor, on cardboard (Wien Museum)