Schmadribachfall

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Painting by Joseph Anton Koch (1821/1822). Picture in the Neue Pinakothek Munich

The Schmadribachfall is a waterfall of the Schmadribach in the Bernese Oberland , Switzerland . The Schmadribach rises from the Breithorn Glacier and the Schmadrigletscher at the foot of the Grosshorn and Breithorn and plunges over limestone banks down into the farthest Lauterbrunnen valley . The total height is around 270 meters over several steps.

The Schmadribachfall became known through a painting by Joseph Anton Koch around 1794. This shows the theme of the Paris judgment parodied as a peasant swank (Karsten Müller) against the heroic background of the case. Another version from 1822 - without the Paris judgment - hangs in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.

The case was later painted by Samuel Birmann (1827) and also used by him for an idealized study ( waterfall between two glacier terraces , 1829). The case was painted very realistically by Birmann and transfigured as romantic and eerie in the later study.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 41 "  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 29"  E ; CH1903:  636,027  /  151222