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... »den 23ten August
1827« (on 23rd Agust 1827)
Water colour over brush painting, underdrawings of the figures in
black chalk, 254 x 211 mm. Laminated onto a fragment of a pencil
drawing featuring grotesque motifs (which can be dated to the middle
of the 19th century).
Condition: small flaw in the lower left-hand corner
This water colour was produced two years after Gille embarked on his
studies at the Dresden Academy of Arts, the same year the artist was
accepted as a studio apprentice with landscape painter Johan Christian
Dahl (1788 - 1857). He defined himself as a landscape painter from
this point onwards, taking the Saxon landscape as his creative theme.
However, he did not enter a landscape in oil in the Dresden Academy of
Arts exhibition until 1829.
The finely-detailed water colour is an interesting forerunner of his
later artistic oeuvre. It achieves maximum atmospheric density in the
draft-like oil sketches, which seem to arise directly from nature
itself.
I would like to pass on my thanks to Prof. Helmut Börsch-Supan
(Berlin) and Dr. Gerd Spitzer (Dresden) for attributing the water
colour to Gille. (Verbal notification in February 2008)
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