View of Tollenstein, c. 1802
Adrian Zinggexpand_more
Pen and gray wash on wove paperexpand_more
Gift of C. G. Boernerexpand_more 2012.56.3
Not on Viewexpand_more
Adrian Zingg was a master of the monochrome landscape executed in watered-down inks. The extraordinarily nuanced gradations of tone he could achieve are clear in the play of light and shadow. This drawing, probably a preliminary study for a larger work, depicts the ruins of Castle Tollenstein in Bohemia (today in the Czech Republic). Yet it is more than a recognizable topographical view. Looking at the ruined castle, the monumental bluff, and the vast dark forest in the foreground, it seems as if Zingg’s subject is the grandeur of nature itself.
Details
- Title
- View of Tollenstein
- Artist Life
- 1734 - 1816
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2012.56.3
- Provenance
- Franz Ulrich Apelt, Zittau, Germany (until d. 1944); by descent through his family to his son-in-law, Nikolai Paschkow, Endingen, Germany (until 2011; sold to Boerner); [C. G. Boerner, New York and Düsseldorf, 2011-12]
- Curator Approved
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