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At the Danube, c. 1870

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas on cardboard
37.5×46.5 cm

Artists

  • Emil Jakob Schindler

    (Vienna 1842–1892 Sylt)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
In this early study, created around 1870, Emil Jakob Schindler (1842–1892), one of the most eminent exponents of Austrian Atmospheric Impressionism, anticipated the central concerns of his later oeuvre. He settled for a nature detail, which appears to have been selected at random, with unspectacular motifs. The painting shows a tree-lined path along the shore, leading into the depths. The Danube on the left becomeis a mere sideshow, though the depiction of the boat suggests a harmonious relationship between man and nature. With a palette reduced to brown and green hues, applied using broad brushstrokes, Schindler he captured the summery landscape and its weather conditions, thus affording the unassuming motif a poetic apotheosis.

AGW, 2023

Object data

Artist/author
  • Emil Jakob Schindler
Title
At the Danube
Date
c. 1870
Art movement
Atmospheric Impressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas on cardboard
Dimensions
37.5×46.5 cm
Signature
Signed lower left scratched in paint: J.E. Schindler
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 134
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Heinrich Fuchs: Emil Jakob Schindler. Zeugnisse eines ungewöhnlichen Künstlerlebens. Werkkatalog, Wien 1970.
Catalogue raisonne
  • H. Fuchs 1970: 60
Keywords
landscape representationlandscape: waterriveredge of the woodtreesailing-shiplightshadow

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (vor 1970-1994); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Heinrich Fuchs, Emil Jakob Schindler. Zeugnisse eines ungewöhnlichen Künstlerlebens. Werkkatalog, Wien 1970, S. 152, WV 60 (Abb.)

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