View of St Wolfgang am Abersee
Framesize 50.00 x 65.00 x 3.50 cm
Collection Georg Eckl, no. 28 (1942 purchased); 1943, exhibited at Landesgalerie, no. 5; 14.4.1944, Landesgalerie, LG 519 (Galerie Welz, invoive from 24.3.1944); Bergung St. Gilgen; US-Custody; after 1945/16.11.1949, SMCA (in our days: Salzburg Museum); Residenzgalerie Salzburg
JUFFINGER, PLASSER 2007, p. 206-207
Around 1800, realistic representation became very popular. Landscape vedute aimed to "transcribe" places of interest as accurately as possible – though it was often a question of imitating "improved" natural beauty spots.
Around the turn of the century, increasing demand brought a boom in the production of veduta-style views. Generally, one artist would design the motif, another would make an engraving, which was then printed and coloured. The publisher who would normally have commissioned the work would market the individual prints on a large scale, as a thematic series, as for example the "View of St Wolfgang am Abersee".
Ferdinand Runk (1764–1834) painted the watercolour, Johann Ziegler (c 1750–1812) engraved the template, and Franz Xaver Stöckl in Vienna published the picture as part of a series of views.
Translated catalogue text from:
Habersatter Thomas: Österreichische Barocklandschaften 1600 – 1800. In: Thomas Habersatter, Ducke Astrid (Hrsg.): Natur wird Bild. Österreichische Barocklandschaften. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2021, S. 41-93, Johann Ziegler nach Ferdinand Runk, Ansicht von St. Wolfgang am Abersee, S. 87, 91, Abb. 114, S. 240
Translation: Gail Schamberger MA, Salzburg
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