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Karl Blechen
Monks at the Gulf of Naples (mk09)
c 1829
Oil on panel,37.5 x 29 cm
Colgne,Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
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Karl Blechen
The Gardens of the Villa d'Este (mk09)
c 1830
Oil on canvas,126 x 93 cm
Berlin,Nationalgalerie,Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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Karl Blechen
Monks at the Gulf of Naples
mk87
c.1829
Oil on panel
37.5x29cm
Cologne,Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
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Karl Blechen
The Gardens of the Villa d-Este
mk87
c.1830
Oil on canvas
126x93cm
Berlin,Nationalgalerie,Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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Karl Blechen
Grotto in the Gulf of Naples
1829
Oil on oak panel,
37,5 x 29 cm
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Karl Blechen
Gorge at Amalfi
1831
Oil on canvas,
110,3 x 77,5 cm
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Karl Blechen
In the Palm House in Potsdam
1832-34
Oil on canvas,
64 x 56 cm
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Karl Blechen
Building the Devil-s Bridge
1833
Oil on canvas
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Karl Blechen
Scaffold in Storm
1833-35
Oil on paper mounted on cardboard,
29,5 x 46 cm
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Karl Blechen
The Woods near Spandau
1834
Oil on canvas,
73 x 102 cm
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Karl Blechen
Alpine Pass in Winter with Monks
1833 Watercolour on pencil, 230 x 320 mm
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Karl Blechen
Building the Devil's Bridge
1833 Oil on canvas, cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich At first sight the picture seems full of mystery, indeed it creates a sense of unease. The very title seems designed to evoke a shudder, and this impression is strengthened by the darkening evening with its long shadows, and above all, the building crane, which looks like a gallows. The viewer may well be attracted to the Romantic mood of the painting, but the true message is clear, and it is rather sombre. Man is bringing even the most distant and seemingly inaccessible regions under control through civilization and technical advance, and he is mastering the aspects of nature that have till now seemed unapproachable and fearful. But there is also allegory here - it is in the reference to transience. The new bridge that is being built will one day be as crumbling as the old one is now. Artist: BLECHEN, Karl Title: Building the Devil's Bridge , painting Date: 1801-1850 German : landscape
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German Romantic, 1798-1840
sometimes given as Karl Blechen, was a German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes, sometimes with demons and grotesque figures. Born in Cottbus, he drew the attention of prominent architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who cast him as a decorative painter. Blechen however aimed for higher work and began producing landscape paintings. In 1827 he went to Italy
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