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The “ Innner View ”as Architecturally Individual DepictionAltenburg / Thuringia – Frank, Gustav (Stralsund 1819 – Dessau 1886). Altenburg. Central view seen from somewhat elevated point. On the right in the foreground two peasants coming out of town. Colored lithograph. Inscribed: N. d. Nat. gez. u. lith. v. Gustav Frank. / Druck d. Königl. lith. Instituts zu Berlin., otherwise as above. C. 1850-80. 37 x 54.5 cm. – Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon XLIV, 38 f.; Thieme-Becker XII, 345.
Very fine , extremely rare view as all of Frank’s views, qualified first by the union of draughtsman and lithographer, then as “low bird’s eye view” with the motif form of the “inner view”. The
(Jochen Luckhardt in Lüneburger Beiträge zur Vedutenforschung, 1983, pp. 80 f., by the example of Frank’s view of Münster illustrated and dated as “before 1871”). And
Printed by the Berlin Royal Institute of Lithography on wide-margined fine cardboard with some repairs in its outside margins. Partial light browning and little mold stains on verso appearing visibly toned down inside of the subject in the sky and white margin, hardly spoiling though.
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