Bacharach – Lasinsky, Johann Adolf (Simmern 1808 – Dusseldorf 1871). Ruines de Stahleck. Ruin Stahleck. Center of Bacharach with St. Peter & Werner Chapel at the foot of Stahleck and amidst the vineyards. Toned pen lithograph. Inscribed: (Recorded from nature and lithographed by J. A. Lasinsky 1828. / Frankfort a/M. C. Jügel.), title as above in German-French parallel text. 23.4 x 28.7 cm.
In its nervous line conduct ahead of its time ,
unmistakably, and instantaneously lithographed after own sketch, and thus “standing out highly advantageously from the leaves of much smaller size engraved after him by other artists … Lasinsky’s ‘sensibility, keenest power of observation, realistic study of nature, and talent for large wide landscapes’ have been praised” (Schulte). The simultaneous depiction of the Werner Chapel additionally fascinating. For
“ Celebrated by the German romantic movement as embodiment of the elegiac ruin the Werner Chapel became the
most precious treasure of the Middle Rhine
… (and in its) moving antagonism of grace and decay, vulnerability and inertia it is irresistable till today ”
(Dieter Bartetzko in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 8, 2007).
Offer no. 9,064 / EUR 302. / export price EUR 287. (c. US$ 386.) + shipping
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