Kite flying (painting)
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| Kite flying |
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| Carl Spitzweg , around 1880/1885 |
| Oil on cardboard |
| 38 × 12 cm |
| Old National Gallery Berlin |
Flying a Dragon is a painting by Carl Spitzweg that was created in oil on cardboard between 1880 and 1885 . Today it is in the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin .
Image description
In the foreground of the lower third of the picture are three children on a green-brown meadow: a boy with a taut string in his hand looks up at his kite , another boy with a kite under his arm follows his gaze, while a girl with a doll goes with him has his back to the viewer. A woman with four other children approaches the small group on a meandering, earth-brown path. Other people can only be seen on the meadow in the background and behind them, on the horizon line , the church and the houses of a town. Angelika Wesenberg believes she can see the Theresienwiese in the meadow and Munich as the town of Spitzweg . The upper two thirds of the painting are dominated by the light blue, cloudless sky in which three dragons can be seen as small spots.
reception
Benedict erence results in time in his review of Spitzweg exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in 2003 from that kite flying is one of the finest images Spitzwegs, because "since the colors are [Spitzweg] free and lets them tell their own story;" "a quite incidental scene "makes Spitzweg here" an eternal childhood moment. "
The Süddeutsche Zeitung called the picture in the Streiflicht column of October 17, 2008, “huge”, despite its small size. The lower third of the picture shows “earthly life”, the upper two thirds a “truly infinite sky”, and the dragon is a “magical, if not sacred object, an extraterrestrial phenomenon”, which is why the picture is also referred to as The sky or Could name happiness . It remains the painter's secret where the wind necessary for kite flying comes from when the sky is completely clear.
In the catalog for the Alte Nationalgalerie, Angelika Wesenberg refers to the simple (horizontal) composition, which is daringly broken by the vertical course of the path and the kite line.
Provenance
The Alte Nationalgalerie acquired the painting in 1908 from the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery in Berlin.
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Footnotes
- ↑ a b See Wesenberg, Angelika: Münchner Malerei and Leibl-Kreis . In: Keisch, Claude (ed.): The Old National Gallery Berlin . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52313-7 , p. 110 .
- ↑ Erenz, Benedikt: Color game from luck. Zeit Online , June 2003, accessed August 12, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Streiflicht. Süddeutscher Verlag , October 17, 2008, accessed on August 12, 2010 .
- ↑ See Streiflicht. Süddeutscher Verlag , October 17, 2008, accessed on August 12, 2010 .