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70 - ERNST FRIES_x001D_ Heidelberg 1801–1833 Karlsruhe: Forest Interior with a Staircase Leading to a Ruin. Pencil drawing, 1823/27. Brothers Ernst and Bernhard Fries. Exhibition catalog: Galerie Fach, Frankfurt am Main / Winterberg-Kunst, Heidelberg 2017, no. 22. — Inscribed “Light from the left” in the lower right corner. Verso with another pencil drawing (detail view, variant of the front). On chamois-colored handmade paper with watermark: crowned coat of arms with a post horn and the initials “KM.” 23.2 x 37.2 cm. Small surface stains on the edges have been carefully restored. Presumably created shortly after setting out (September 23, 1823) on the 1823–1827 trip to Italy in the company of Johann Heinrich Schilbach (1798–1851) and the brothers Gottfried and Christoph Rist (c. 1789–1824 and c. 1790–1876, respectively), or on the return journey in 1827. Their route to Italy took them through Munich, Lake Starnberg, Lake Kochel, Lake Walchen, Mittenwald, over the Brenner Pass to Sterzing, etc. [ms]

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ERNST FRIES_x001D_ Heidelberg 1801–1833 Karlsruhe: Forest Interior with a Staircase Leading to a Ruin. Pencil drawing, 1823/27. Brothers Ernst and Bernhard Fries. Exhibition catalog: Galerie Fach, Frankfurt am Main / Winterberg-Kunst, Heidelberg 2017, no. 22. — Inscribed “Light from the left” in the lower right corner. Verso with another pencil drawing (detail view, variant of the front). On chamois-colored handmade paper with watermark: crowned coat of arms with a post horn and the initials “KM.” 23.2 x 37.2 cm. Small surface stains on the edges have been carefully restored. Presumably created shortly after setting out (September 23, 1823) on the 1823–1827 trip to Italy in the company of Johann Heinrich Schilbach (1798–1851) and the brothers Gottfried and Christoph Rist (c. 1789–1824 and c. 1790–1876, respectively), or on the return journey in 1827. Their route to Italy took them through Munich, Lake Starnberg, Lake Kochel, Lake Walchen, Mittenwald, over the Brenner Pass to Sterzing, etc. [ms]

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