Blue crab wings
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| Blue crab wings |
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| Albrecht Dürer , 1512 |
| Watercolor on parchment, opaque colors, heightened with white |
| 19.6 × 20 cm |
| Albertina , Vienna |
The blue-backed wing is a watercolor by Albrecht Dürer and one of his nature studies. Dürer also painted a complete dead blue roller . The origin is given as around 1500 or 1512, although both the picture of the European roller and that of its wing say 1512.
history
Dürer was the first artist to paint plants and animals precisely around 1500. Thirty years later, in 1528, Dürer published in the theory of proportion the theoretical background that only the veracity of nature makes the depicted object a work of art.
"The character of autonomous works of art is also confirmed by the image carrier in two nature studies by Albrecht Dürer in the Albertina, the" Blaurackenflügel "and the" Dead Blauracke "(Inv. Both studies were painted on parchment, and moreover, Dürer has exaggerated the natural model in these works with the golden brush and a more intense color than can be found in nature. Here the artist dealt with the almond crow, which was formerly at home all over Europe. Because of its crow-like sound ("rak, rak, rak") and its turquoise-blue wings, the bird was also called the European roller. Dominating the image, the bird's wing, viewed from above, spreads across the leaf. The eye is guided from the dark feathers of the wings of the hand through the changing green and blue tones of the wing covers to the red of a tear wound on the right edge of the picture, solely by means of color compositional means. Nevertheless, depictions of wings keep appearing in Dürer's work, such as B. in his famous copper engraving "Nemesis" (Inv. DG1930 / 1528) or in the "Melencolia" (Inv. DG1930 / 1525), the blue-necked wing found no direct expression in Dürer's own work - but in the form of imitations of others Artist in the course of increased admiration for Dürer towards the end of the 16th century. It is not always easy to distinguish originals from copies and imitations; Ultimately, the Albertina also has sheets that are no longer considered real Dürer studies, but are still extremely popular because of their grace. "
The blue-crested wing was on loan from Dürer's works in 2013 to the National Gallery of Art , Washington, USA, in contrast to its brown hares .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blaurackenflügel , 2013 Albertina Online.
- ^ Dead Blauracke , 2013 Albertina Online.
- ↑ Heute.at: "Albertina lends 118 Dürer works to the US Museum" - 2013
- ↑ National Gallery of Art, accessed April 16, 2016 ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
