Artist
Carl Gustav Carus 1789 – 1869
About the work
Carl Gustav Carus was a very versatile spirit in the Dresden of his day, being a physiologist, a natural scientist, a writer and philosopher, a personal physician at the Saxon court and a friend of Goethe’s; his secondary occupation, as it were, was that of artist. Yet his contemporaries already acknowledged him as an important master among Dresden artists of the Romantic period. Carus was particularly attracted to charcoal drawings such as this one, which is half smeared, half drawn, because of the freedom and lightness, which he later compared to «a musician fantasising at the piano”.
Year
after 1851
Material / Technique
Charcoal, heightened with white on greenish paper,
mounted on grey-brown cardboard
Dimensions of the object
59,5 x 44 cm
Signature
unbez.
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
Z 1113
Access
1951 acquired at the Kunstausstellung Heinrich Kühl, Dresden
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/PUNCTUM/Bertram Kober
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
Exhibitions
- Im Morgenlicht der Republik. 100 Jahre Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz 25.07.2020 – 25.10.2020
- Sehnsucht Landschaft. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz 19.3.2023 – 4.6.2023
Year
after 1851
Material / Technique
Charcoal, heightened with white on greenish paper,
mounted on grey-brown cardboard
Dimensions of the object
59,5 x 44 cm
Signature
unbez.
Museum
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Inventory no.
Z 1113
Access
1951 acquired at the Kunstausstellung Heinrich Kühl, Dresden
Creditline
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Photo
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/PUNCTUM/Bertram Kober
© gemeinfrei
Status
Not on display
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