The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 6, 2023

The Artists on Their Journey

1819

Johann Adam Klein

(German, 1792–1875)

Germany, 19th century

Etching on wove paper

Plate: 24.5 x 30.3 cm (9 5/8 x 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 29.3 x 34 cm (11 9/16 x 13 3/8 in.)

Gift of Margaret and Peter Dobbins in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Print Club of Cleveland 2018.304

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

The artists portrayed in this print were friends who walked through the Bavarian Alps together in 1818 in order to sketch the alpine landscapes they encountered.

Description

This image was created to capture the memory of a walking tour by the artist and four friends through the Salzburg-Berchtesgaden region of the Alps in August, 1818. Klein depicted his friends—all artists—with backpacks, easels, and satchels for carrying their artist’s materials. Artists working in the Romantic era placed importance on travel as a path to self-knowledge and creative inspiration.

Inscriptions

Inscription

In plate: “gezeichnet auf einer malersohen Reise von Salzburg nach Berchtesgaden im taguft 1818”

Inscription

below left of image; “J.A. Klein fec München 1819”

Inscription

below right of image; “Meinen Reisegefährten gewidmet” below image.

Inscription

Collector’s Mark, verso: Lugt 2049c, Philadelphia Print Club Permanent Collection

Inscription

Inscription, graphite, recto: “(illeg) 234.II/Portraits of artists Fr. Reinhold H. Reinhold Christian Erhard F. Welker”

Provenance
Philadelphia Print Club Permanent Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
C.G. Boerner, New York, NY
December 3, 2018
the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Jahn, Carl. Das Werk von Johann Adam Klein, Maler und Kupferätzer zu München, Mitglied der kgl. Akademic der Künste zu Berlin. Munich: Verlag der Montmorrilon’schen Kunsthandlung, 1863 no. 234 ii/ii
Zimmerman, Antje, and Ursula Peters. Deutsche Graphik des Klassizismus und der Romantik: Aus dem bestand der Graphischen Sammlung des Von der Heydt-Museums Wuppertal. Edited by Sabine Fehlemann. Wuppertal:Von der Heydt-Museum, 1989, no. 83
Seeliger, Stephan, and Norbert Suhr. Unter Glas un Rahmen: Druckgraphik der Romantik aus den Beständen des Landesmuseums Mainz und aus Privatbesitz. Exh. Cat., Landesmuseum Mainz, 1993 no. 17
Griffiths, Antony, and Frances Carey. German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1994. no. 140
Philadelphia Museum of Art, John W. Ittmann, Cordula Grewe, Warren Breckman, Mitchell Benjamin Frank, Catriona MacLeod, and F. Carlo Schmid. The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770-1850. 2017. p. 127-129, fig. 95, no. 116
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.304