Salzburger Landschaft mit Untersberg und Watzmann

In the summer of 1818, presumably encouraged by his friend Ferdinand Olivier (1785–1841) Friedrich Philipp set off with his brother Heinrich and other artists on a study trip to Salzburg and Berchtesgaden. The Mönchsberg and the landscape garden in Aigen, at the foot of the Gaisberg, offered particularly spectacular vantage points – in Aigen, the views of the town and the mountain panorama. The occasional standpoint was accessible by a network of paths. Studies and sketches were done on site, and the paintings executed – sometimes years later – in the studio.
Reinhold’s landscape œuvre is characterised on the one hand by his realistic style, on the other by his Romanticist leaning. These two perspectives are combined in this painting purchased by the Residenzgalerie in 1953 under the title "Haymaking in the Salzach Valley". Untersberg and Watzmann form the setting for a rustic scene showing the dalliance of a young couple.

Habersatter Thomas: Friedrich Philipp Reinhold, Salzburg Landscape with Untersberg and Watzmann. In: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hg.): Stadt - Land - Berg. Salzburg und seine Umgebung. Town - Landscape - Mountain. Salzburg and surroundings. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2022, p. 84, illus. p. 85