Ruins of a Castle
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1825
- Dimensions
- Image: 15.4 × 21.8 cm (6 1/8 × 8 5/8 in.); Sheet: 25.7 × 35 cm (10 1/8 × 13 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Carl Blechen
Artist
Painting
Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen was a German landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty.
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The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam
1834 · Oil on canvas
A Ruined Church in the Forest
1829 · brush and brown ink and watercolor over graphite on light gray wove paper
Church and Graveyard in the Snow by Moonlight
1827 · Lithograph, with gray tone block on cream wove paper
Pilgrim in the Woods
1825 · Lithograph in black and blue on cream wove paper
David and Bathsheba
1825 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper
The Monastery in the Forest
1823 · etching on chine collé
Record
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- Carl Blechen
- Year
- 1825
- Dimensions
- Image: 15.4 × 21.8 cm (6 1/8 × 8 5/8 in.); Sheet: 25.7 × 35 cm (10 1/8 × 13 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1825-011532
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified