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Landscape with Aggstein Castle Ruin, 1926

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Bildrecht,
Vienna 2022
Oil on cardboard
43.1×54.5 cm

Artists

  • Josef Dobrowsky

    (Karlovy Vary 1889–1964 Tullnerbach)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Josef Dobrowsky (1889–1964) presents this rural scene in the mystic darkly light of a storm coming up. Dilapidating stone walls and the wind-bent leafless tree are basked in a red glow in Landscape with Aggstein Castle Ruin. Like a frame, they enclose on the left and right the river meandering through the center of the picture. Inspired in color and motif by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30–1569), the works is distinguished by its expressiveness and visible brushstroke. The life-giving fertile land below the ruin is veiled in darkness. An inconspicuous person is standing, with no shelter, by the handrail leading to the little hill looking toward the horizon and the approaching menacing thunderstorm.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Josef Dobrowsky
Title
Landscape with Aggstein Castle Ruin
Date
1926
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
43.1×54.5 cm
Signature
Signed and dated lower left: J. Dobrowsky [19]26
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 14
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

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