The wide pine next to the Brühl near Mödling
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| The wide pine next to the Brühl near Mödling |
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| Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld , 1838 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 66 × 112 cm |
| Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
The wide pine next to the Brühl near Mödling is a landscape painting by Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld from 1838 . The 66 x 112 cm oil painting on canvas is in the Belvedere Museum .
Description and interpretation
The central motif is the Breite Föhre on the Anninger mountain in the Vienna Woods , a popular excursion destination and a former natural monument. Behind her, a wide view of the landscape opens up over the Eichkogel to the Vienna Basin . Several people are arranged around the tree: Directly at the trunk, a wandering craftsman leans on his stick, on the left behind him a group of four field workers rests and on the right in the foreground a beggar and a middle-class couple can be seen. These figures symbolize the four classes of craftsmen, peasants, beggars and citizens, as well as their virtues of devotion , diligence , humility and charity : the journeyman holds his devotion to a picture of Mary on the trunk, the field workers have worked and are resting and the beggar accepts alms that is handed to him by an urban citizen couple.
The painting is one of the main works of romantic landscape depiction.
Journeyman craftsman
Field workers
Citizens and Beggars
Signature and origin
The signature and date are in the lower left corner: 18 LS 38 (LS ligated). The inventory number is 3167. The picture is 66 x 112 cm, the frame dimensions are 84 x 130 x 12 cm. It was bought in 1930 from the Albert Kende auction house in Vienna and is now in the Biedermeier collection in the Belvedere Museum Vienna.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Belvedere Art Education: The first half of the 19th century. Biedermeier: Contemplative Landscapes (accessed on November 3, 2016)
- ↑ Belvedere gallery guide. Vienna 2008 p. 34 (accessed on November 3, 2016)
- ↑ The painting on the museum website (accessed November 3, 2016)