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Canal in Holland, 1876

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Leopold Museum,
Vienna
recto: Oil on wood, verso: Oil on wood
26.6×36.7 cm

Artists

  • Tina Blau-Lang

    (Vienna 1845–1916 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Holland is one of the central themes in the oeuvre of the landscape and still life painter Tina Blau-Lang (1845–1916). Together with her friend and fellow painter Emil Jakob Schindler (1842–1892), a representative of Atmospheric Impressionism with whom she temporarily shared her studio in Vienna, she had made her first trip to the home of the great landscape painters of the 17th century in 1875 and had developed a fascination with the land of canals and its specific lighting and weather conditions. In her 1876 work Canal in Holland, Blau-Lang aims at emphasizing spatial depth by guiding the running water with the alley of trees diagonally towards the vanishing point in the left half of the picture. The composition seems calm, but the dramatic weather and lighting conditions and the open and dynamic brushstrokes instill movement in the picture.

AGW, 2001

Object data

Artist/author
  • Tina Blau-Lang
Title
Canal in Holland
Alternative title
Verso: Winter Study
Date
1876
Art movement
Atmospheric Impressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
recto: Oil on wood, verso: Oil on wood
Dimensions
26.6×36.7 cm
Signature
Signed lower center: T. Blau
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 559
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Leopold Museum Wien. Österreichische Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, München u.a. 2008.
  • Leopold. Meisterwerke aus dem Leopold Museum Wien, hrsg. von Rudolf Leopold und Romana Schuler, Köln u.a. 2001.
Keywords
landscape representationtreecloudsthunderstormcanalwriting/letters

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