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R. WASMANN (1805-1886), In South Tyrol, Rudolf Friedrich Wasmann (1805 Hamburg - 1886 Meran): In South Tyrol, , Pen drawing Technique: Pen drawing over Pencil on Paper Inscription: General information: inscribed on the backing: "In memory of St Nicolas | Fr Wasmann". Date: Description: Our sheet from the South Tyrol region, probably created around 1840, is one of a series of drawings that the artist created in the years following his three-year trip to Italy from 1835 onwards. What is special and interesting about Wasmann's drawing style is that he uses pen and pencil in the same way as oil paint. As with his oil sketches, he concentrated here on pure form and light. The detail of the individual elements evaporates in favour of a totality that is determined by the materiality of the light. He uses the pen like highlights to emphasise the outlines of the trees and figures. The landscape and the architecture in the background dissolve in the light, the delicate pencil hatching expresses the atmosphere of distance and the white of the paper blends into this colour scheme. Early on after his initial training in Dresden from 1825 under Gustav Heinrich Naeke, Wasmann favoured the Nazarene ideal over the immediate conception of landscape. Although the Nazarene influence was to continue, for example in Munich under Peter von Cornelius from 1829 and through Friedrich Overbeck from 1832 in Rome, where he also converted to Catholicism, his conception of nature corresponds to the spontaneous, the experienced moment, which must be perceived and captured in its fleetingness. His oil sketches of the Tyrolean regions thus appear to be related to those of Blechen, who also found a resolution of form under the Italian sun. Wasmann is also almost nervous in this drawing, intent on fleetingness. Through his direct approach to reality, which does not break with the concreteness of detail, Wasmann, together with Blechen and Gille, proves to be an early pioneer of German open-air painting. Keywords: Church, Country life, Countryside, Regional, 19th century, Romanticism, Landscape, Italy, Size: Paper: 13,5 cm x 19,7 cm (5,3 x 7,8 in) Condition: Rather good condition. Age-appropriate.

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R. WASMANN (1805-1886), In South Tyrol, Rudolf Friedrich Wasmann (1805 Hamburg - 1886 Meran): In South Tyrol, , Pen drawing Technique: Pen drawing over Pencil on Paper Inscription: General information: inscribed on the backing: "In memory of St Nicolas | Fr Wasmann". Date: Description: Our sheet from the South Tyrol region, probably created around 1840, is one of a series of drawings that the artist created in the years following his three-year trip to Italy from 1835 onwards. What is special and interesting about Wasmann's drawing style is that he uses pen and pencil in the same way as oil paint. As with his oil sketches, he concentrated here on pure form and light. The detail of the individual elements evaporates in favour of a totality that is determined by the materiality of the light. He uses the pen like highlights to emphasise the outlines of the trees and figures. The landscape and the architecture in the background dissolve in the light, the delicate pencil hatching expresses the atmosphere of distance and the white of the paper blends into this colour scheme. Early on after his initial training in Dresden from 1825 under Gustav Heinrich Naeke, Wasmann favoured the Nazarene ideal over the immediate conception of landscape. Although the Nazarene influence was to continue, for example in Munich under Peter von Cornelius from 1829 and through Friedrich Overbeck from 1832 in Rome, where he also converted to Catholicism, his conception of nature corresponds to the spontaneous, the experienced moment, which must be perceived and captured in its fleetingness. His oil sketches of the Tyrolean regions thus appear to be related to those of Blechen, who also found a resolution of form under the Italian sun. Wasmann is also almost nervous in this drawing, intent on fleetingness. Through his direct approach to reality, which does not break with the concreteness of detail, Wasmann, together with Blechen and Gille, proves to be an early pioneer of German open-air painting. Keywords: Church, Country life, Countryside, Regional, 19th century, Romanticism, Landscape, Italy, Size: Paper: 13,5 cm x 19,7 cm (5,3 x 7,8 in) Condition: Rather good condition. Age-appropriate.

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