KONRAD PETRIDES (1864-1944)
The Sassolungo (3,181 m- 10,436ft)
Italy
In The Langkofelgruppe- View of Saslonch-Langkofel in the Dolomites, watercolour,
The mountain
The Sassolungo (3,181 m- 10,436ft) (Langkofel in german) which means Long stone is a mountain massif of the western Dolomites (Trentino-Alto Adige). The summits of the Sassolungo group in their entirety form a circular arc, which opens only to the northwest and thus has a kind of inner courtyard. The area originated in the early Triassic period (about 230 million years ago) as a coral reef in the tropical shallow sea, where hard limestone could form on the outside of the reef, while the rock remained brittle inside and after the uplift of the mountains could be washed out quickly.
The Sassolungo is a complex mountain with high slopes and many secondary summits : Sasso Levante or Punta Grohmann (3,126 m -10,256 ft) ; Punta delle Cinque Dita or Fünffingerspitze (2,998 m - 9,8360 ft) ; Sasso Piatto or Plattkofel (2,958 m - 9,7080 ft) and Campanile Comici.It was first First climbed by Paul Grohmann, Franz Innerkofler and Peter Salcher in 1869.
The artist
Konrad Petrides was a Viennese landscape and stage painter in the studio Hermann Burghart, where the painters Anton Brioschi, Josef Kautsky, Georg Jany and Leopold Rothaug also worked. He also painted many veduras, especially from Lower Austria and East Tyrol. Petrides was a member of the Dürer League, in whose exhibitions he participated and whose silver medal he received in 1919. In 1904 he also received the gold medal at the World's Fair in St. Louis, USA.