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The Rauschberg

c. 1800

Georg von Dillis

(German, 1759–1841)
Culture
Germany, 19th century
Medium
black chalk, graphite, and white gouache
Support
Blue laid paper perimeter mounted to a false margin of beige wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 21.8 x 25.3 cm (8 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 29.9 x 32.6 cm (11 3/4 x 12 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1977.46
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Description

Alongside his career as a connoisseur and art historian, Dillis drew and painted enthusiastically. Between 1808 and 1814 he was a professor of landscape painting at the Munich Academy. Most of his work consists of freely painted watercolors and oil sketches executed directly from nature. This atmospheric study of the staggeringly high Rauschberg mountain may have been influenced by English watercolors, with which Dillis was familiar.
A horizontally oriented blue paper features a central drawing of a craggy mountain range. In the foreground, a dark, textured slope rises from the lower left. Behind it, rocky peaks are defined by black chalk shadows and white highlights, suggesting light from the left. Wispy white clouds drift across the blue background. Graphite lines merge the mountain's base into the paper, and an inscription marks the bottom right corner.

The Rauschberg

c. 1800

Georg von Dillis

(German, 1759–1841)
Germany, 19th century

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