Artist
Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
About the work
The church is the old parish church of St. Jacobi in Greifswald. Friedrich changed the architecture and added an imposing double-tower facade and a decorative gable. The leaf is partially pinned and blacked out with chalk on the back, indicating that the motif has been transferred to another medium. The harpist is considered to be a preliminary sketch for a cycle of pictures with leaves from the Hamburg Kunsthalle and the Paris Louvre, whose compositions represented the allegories of secular, religious and heavenly music. The Chemnitz drawing embodies religious music.
Year
around 1830
Material / Technique
Black Chalk, incisions
Dimensions of the object
72,2 x 51,5 cm
Signature
unbez.
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
Z 420
Access
1935 acquired at the Kunstausstellung Heinrich Kühl, Dresden
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/May Voigt
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
Exhibitions
- Les origines de l'abstraction, Paris, Musée d'Orsay / Réunion des Musées Nationaux 03.11.2003 – 23.02.2004
- Kristall - Metapher der Kunst, Quedlinburg, Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie 31.08.1997 – 16.11.1997
- Caspar David Friedrich - Die Erfindung der Romantik, Essen, Hamburg 05.05.2006 – 28.01.2007
- Caspar David Friedrich - Die Erfindung der Romantik, Hamburger Kunsthalle 07.10.2006 – 28.01.2007
- Caspar David Friedrich - Die Erfindung der Romantik, Essen, Museum Folkwang 05.05.2006 – 03.09.2006
- Deutsche Romantiker und Ludwig Richter Schüler. Gemälde Aquarelle Zeichnungen, Chemnitz - Am Rossmarkt, Kunstausstellung Gerstenberger G.M.B.H. 1932
- Im Morgenlicht der Republik. 100 Jahre Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz 25.07.2020 – 25.10.2020
Catalog raisonné
Grummt 936
Year
around 1830
Material / Technique
Black Chalk, incisions
Dimensions of the object
72,2 x 51,5 cm
Signature
unbez.
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
Z 420
Access
1935 acquired at the Kunstausstellung Heinrich Kühl, Dresden
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/May Voigt
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
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