LE GLOCKNER PEINT PAR JOSEF STOITZNER

JOSEF STOITZNER (1884-1951)
Glokner (3 798 m),
Autriche

in Landscape in the Pinzgau , 1910, huile sur toile 

La montagne
Le Großglockner ou Grossglockner, souvent abrégé en Glockner (3 798 m), le point culminant de l'Autriche, entre la Carinthie et le Tyrol. Ce pic marqué, en roches appartenant à un faciès à schistes verts, appartient au chaînon du Glockner situé au centre des Hohe Tauern, et est considéré comme le sommet le plus important des Alpes orientales. Depuis les premières reconnaissances au 17e siècle et la première ascension par quatre alpinistes d'une grande expédition organisée par le prince-évêque Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim en 1800, le Großglockner a joué un rôle important dans le développement de l’alpinisme. Il est resté très important pour le tourisme de la région, et représente un but apprécié des alpinistes, avec 5 000 ascensions par an. La vue sur la montagne, un des symboles les plus connus de l’Autriche, est la principale attraction paysagère de la Haute route alpine du Großglockner.

Le peintre
Josef Stoitzner (1884-1951) est un peintre et graveur autrichien. À partir de 1905, Stoitzner travaille comme professeur d'art. De 1916 à 1919, il enseigne la peinture de paysage à l'Académie des femmes de Vienne, succédant à Tina Blau, à partir de 1922 il est inspecteur spécialisé dans les collèges et de 1932 à 1934 il est également maître de conférences à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Vienne. Stoitzner était membre de la Sécession viennoise (à partir de 1909) et du Vienna Künstlerhaus (à partir de 1939). Il peint des paysages, des natures mortes, des intérieurs et travaille également graphiquement (lithographies et gravures sur bois).
Josef Stoitzner est resté fidèle à l'impressionnisme atmosphérique tout au long de sa vie ; ses paysages du début ou de la fin de l'hiver sont très caractéristiques, dans lesquels des branches d'arbres nus exécutées avec précision contrastent avec la douce luminosité des plaques de neige et un ciel clair du soir. Les œuvres de Stoitzner appartiennent, entre autres, à la galerie autrichienne Belvedere et au Musée de Vienne. 

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2024 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
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LE HOCHKÖNIG PEINT PAR JOSEF STOITZNER

JOSEF STOITZNER  (1884-1951)
Hochkönig (2 941 m)
Autriche

In Journée d'été dans le Bramberg, c.1930, huile sur toile, Musée du Belvédère,Vienne

La montagne
Le Hochkönig ou Hochkoenig (littéralement « Haut Roi ») est un sommet des Alpes, à 2 941 m d'altitude, point culminant des Alpes de Berchtesgaden, et en particulier du chaînon du Hochkönigstock, en Autriche (land de Salzbourg).

Le peintre
Josef Stoitzner (1884-1951) est un peintre et graveur autrichien .
À partir de 1905, Stoitzner travaille comme professeur d'art. De 1916 à 1919, il enseigne la peinture de paysage à l'Académie des femmes de Vienne, succédant à Tina Blau, à partir de 1922 il est inspecteur spécialisé dans les collèges et de 1932 à 1934 il est également maître de conférences à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Vienne. Stoitzner était membre de la Sécession viennoise (à partir de 1909) et du Vienna Künstlerhaus (à partir de 1939). Il peint des paysages, des natures mortes, des intérieurs et travaille également graphiquement (lithographies et gravures sur bois).
Josef Stoitzner est resté fidèle à l'impressionnisme atmosphérique tout au long de sa vie ; ses paysages du début ou de la fin de l'hiver sont très caractéristiques, dans lesquels des branches d'arbres nus exécutées avec précision contrastent avec la douce luminosité des plaques de neige et un ciel clair du soir. Les œuvres de Stoitzner appartiennent, entre autres, à la galerie autrichienne Belvedere et au Musée de Vienne. 

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2024 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
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LE MASSIF DU WETTERSTEIN PEINT PAR EDWARD H. COMPTON

EDWARD H. COMPTON  (1861-1960)
Le Wetterstein (2 ,962 m)
Allemagne- Autriche

In  Un blick auf Wettersteingebirge, darunter schloss elmaug, huile ur toile

 

 La montagne

Le Wetterstein (littéralement Pierre dy temps ) est un massif des Préalpes orientales septentrionales. Il s'élève entre l'Autriche (Land du Tyrol) et l'Allemagne (Bavière). La Zugspitze est le point culminant du massif, ainsi que de l'Allemagne. Le massif est entouré par les Préalpes bavaroises au nord-est, les Karwendel à l'est, les Alpes de Stubai au sud, les Alpes de l'Ötztal au sud-ouest, les Alpes de Lechtal à l'ouest et les Alpes d'Ammerg au au nord-ouest. Il est bordé au sud par l'Inn et à l'ouest et au nord-ouest par le Loisach. Il est également traversé en direction de l'est par le Leutascher AcheAu sud de ce dernier, on distingue habituellement le chaînon de Mieming (Mieminger Kette) du reste du massif.

Le peintre 

Edward Harrison Compton est un peintre et illustrateur allemand d'origine britannique. Né  Bavière, il est le second fils du peintre Edward Theodore Compton  (1849-1921) né en Angleterre. Il a contracté la poliomyélite à l'âge de 20 ans, et a été en fauteuil roulant les 20 dernières années de sa vie. Ses œuvres ont été exposées en particulier à l'Académie Royale de Londres, ainsi qu'à Munich et Berlin. Il a deux sœurs, Marion Compton, peintre de fleurs, et Dora Keel-Compton, peintre de fleurs et de montagnes.

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2023 - Wandering Vertexes ....
Errant au-dessus des Sommets Silencieux...
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ORTLER / ORTLES PEINT PAR JOSEPH RUMMELSPACHER

JOSEPH RUMMELSPACHER (1852-1921)
Ortler / Ortles (3,905 m -12,812 ft)
Italie / Frontière Autrichienne

 In Sommet Nord de l'Ortler, Sud Tyrol, Austriche. huile et tempera sur carton , 46 x 75 cm. Daté 1899, Courtesy John Mitchell Fine Paintings Gallery, London

La montagne
Ortles (en italien) ou Ortler (en allemand) est un sommet des Alpes, à 3 905 m, point culminant du massif de l'Ortles, en Italie (Trentin-Haut-Adige). C'était également, jusqu'en 1919, le point le plus élevé de l'Autriche-Hongrie. Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, l'armée austro-hongroise installe la position la plus élevée de la guerre sur la montagne, équipée de plusieurs pièces d'artillerie. Tous les itinéraires vers le sommet sont des circuits de haute altitude exigeants. Il est recouvert sur la face nord-ouest par un glacier. La face nord de la montagne est considérée comme la plus grande paroi de glace des Alpes orientales, bien que de plus en plus de roches émergent à cause de la fonte des glaciers. La légende de la "chasse fantastique", connue  sous le nom de "Wilde Fahr " dont le point de départ  était sur l'Ortles, vient de la religion germanique. Dans ce mythe  l'Ortles est associé au royaume des morts. Une légende postérieure est plus connue, dans laquelle l'Ortles apparaît comme un géant. Celui-ci est vaincu par le nain Stelvio et moqué dans un poème (« Oh, géant Ortler, comme tu es petit ») puis se fige dans la glace et la neige32. Selon une autre légende, un ours se serait échappé de ses chasseurs par le Hintergrat jusqu'à Trafoi en 1881. Le Bärenloch, un bassin glaciaire sous le Tschierfeck, est également associé à un ours dans l'Ortles : on dit qu'il doit son nom à la découverte d'un squelette d'ours à cet endroit.

Le peintre
Joseph Rummelspacher fut un peintre paysagiste allemand. Il était le fils du conseiller de la chancellerie secrète, directeur de la chancellerie secrète au ministère de la Justice de Berlin et capitaine a. D. Wilhelm Rummelspacher et petit-fils de l'aubergiste Joseph Kroll (1797-1848) de Breslau, fondateur de l'établissement Kroll à Berlin. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme d'études secondaires en 1870, il fréquente l' Académie des Arts de Berlin. De 1871 à 1873, il fut l'élève de Theodor Hagen à l' école d'art grand-ducale saxonne de Weimar. C'est là ce moment là qu'il rejoignit le mouvement réaliste connu sous le nom d'école de peinture de Weimar, proche de l'Ecole de Barbizon.
Les tableaux de Rummelspacher traitaient principalement de motifs inspirés par la Forêt-Noire, plus tard du Mark Brandenburg et du Mecklembourg. Des voyages d'études l'ont amené e.a. 1879 en Suisse, dans le nord de l'Italie, en Corse( 1887 ou avant), 1887 (également 1889 et 1890 ?), dans le sud de la Norvège vers le Spitzberg et les montagnes du Harz  et 1891  et vers le Tyrol du Sud et 1903.
Il s'est également intéressé  aux panoramas . Pour l' exposition commerciale de Berlin en 1896, il dirige la production d'un panorama, à travers lequel il se fait connaître d'un large public. Pour l' exposition universelle de Chicago en 1893, il peint deux panoramas de paysages viticoles allemands. Pour l' exposition universelle de Saint-Louis de 1904, il est chargé des dioramas Les Alpes allemandes et tyroliennes.
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2023 - Wandering Vertexes ....
Errant au-dessus des Sommets Silencieux...
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DIE HOCHFEILER OR GRAN PILASTRO BY AUGUST STRINDBERG

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AUGUST STRINDBERG (1849-1912)
The Hochfeiler or Gran Pilastro (3,510 m -11,520 ft)
Austria - Italy border
 

In Alpine Landscape Austria, oil on canvas, Private collection

The artist
Johan August Strindberg known to be a famous  Swedish playwright was also  a novelist a poet, an essayist and a painter. Strindberg, something of a polymath, was also a telegrapher, theosophist, photographer and alchemist!  Painting and photography offered vehicles for his belief that chance played a crucial part in the creative process. Strindberg's paintings were unique for their time, and went beyond those of his contemporaries for their radical lack of adherence to visual reality. The 117 paintings that are acknowledged as his were mostly painted within the span of a few years, and are now seen by some as among the most original works of 19th-century art. Today, his best-known pieces are stormy, expressionist seascapes, selling at high prices in auction houses. Though Strindberg was friends with Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin, and was thus familiar with modern trends, the spontaneous and subjective expressiveness of his landscapes and seascapes can be ascribed also to the fact that he painted only in periods of personal crisis. Anders Zorn also did a portrait.
Strindberg's interest in photography resulted, among other things, in a large number of arranged self-portraits in various environments, which now number among the best-known pictures of him. Strindberg also embarked on a series of camera-less images, using an experimental quasi-scientific approach. He produced a type of photogram that encouraged the development and growth of crystals on the photographic emulsion, sometimes exposed for lengthy periods to heat or cold in the open air or at night facing the stars. The suggestiveness of these, which he called Celestographs, provided an object for contemplation, and he noted: "Today, in these days of x-rays, the miracle was that neither a camera nor a lens was used. For me this means a great opportunity to demonstrate the real circumstances by means of my photographs made without a camera and lens, recording the firmament in early spring 1894."
His interest in the occult in the 1890s finds sympathy with the chance quality of these images, but for him they are also scientific. In 1895 Strindberg met Camille Flammarion and became a member of the Société astronomique de France. He gave some of his experimental astronomical photographs to the Society

The mountain
The Hochfeiler 3,510 m (11,520 ft) called Gran Pilastro in italian is a mountain, 3,510 metres high, and the highest peak in the Zillertal Alps on the border between Tyrol, Austria, and South Tyrol, Italy.

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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
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THE DACHSTEIN PAINTED BY KONRAD PETRIDES

KONRAD PETRIDES (1864-1944)
Hoher Dachstein (2, 995m - 9, 826ft)
Austria  

In Dachstein mit Gosausee, 1899,  Private collection

The mountain  

The Dachstein (2, 995m - 9, 826ft) is a strongly karstic Austrian mountain, and the second highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria in central Austria, and is the highest point in each of those states. Parts of the massif also lie in the state of Salzburg, leading to the mountain being referred to as the Drei-Lander-Berg ("three-state mountain"). The Dachstein massif covers an area of around 20x30 km with dozens of peaks above 2,500 m, the highest of which are in the southern and south-western areas. Seen from the north, the Dachstein massif is dominated by the glaciers with the rocky summits rising beyond them. By contrast, to the south, the mountain drops almost vertically to the valley floor.
The summit was first reached in 1832 by Peter Gappmayr, via the Gosau glacier, after an earlier attempt by Erzherzog Karl via the Hallstätter glacier had failed. Within two years of Gappmayr's success a wooden cross had been erected at the summit. The first person to reach the summit in winter was Friedrich Simony, on 14 January 1847. The sheer southern face was first climbed on 22 September 1909 by the brothers Irg and Franz Steiner.
Being the highest point of two different Bundesländer, the summit is a popular goal in both summer and winter. In fine weather as many as 100 climbers may be attempting the ascent, leading to congestion at key sections of the climb.

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.

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THE DACHSTEIN PAINTED BY FERDINAND GEORG WALDMÜLLER

 

FERDINAND GEORG WALDMÜLLER (1793-1865)

Hoher Dachstein (2, 995m - 9, 826ft)

 Austria 

In The Dachstein, 1835, oil on canvas, Belvedere Museum, Vienna

The mountain
Hoher Dachstein (2, 995m - 9, 826ft) is a strongly karstic Austrian mountain, and the second highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria in central Austria, and is the highest point in each of those states. Parts of the massif also lie in the state of Salzburg, leading to the mountain being referred to as the Drei-Lander-Berg ("three-state mountain"). The Dachstein massif covers an area of around 20x30 km with dozens of peaks above 2,500 m, the highest of which are in the southern and south-western areas. Seen from the north, the Dachstein massif is dominated by the glaciers with the rocky summits rising beyond them. By contrast, to the south, the mountain drops almost vertically to the valley floor.
The summit was first reached in 1832 by Peter Gappmayr, via the Gosau glacier, after an earlier attempt by Erzherzog Karl via the Hallstätter glacier had failed. Within two years of Gappmayr's success a wooden cross had been erected at the summit. The first person to reach the summit in winter was Friedrich Simony, on 14 January 1847. The sheer southern face was first climbed on 22 September 1909 by the brothers Irg and Franz Steiner.
Being the highest point of two different Bundesländer, the summit is a popular goal in both summer and winter. In fine weather as many as 100 climbers may be attempting the ascent, leading to congestion at key sections of the climb.

The painter
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was an Austrian writer and one of the most important painters of the Biedermeier period. Whether it was the conquest of the landscape and thus the convincing rendering of closeness or distance, the accurate characterisation of the human face, the detailed and refined description of textures, or the depiction of rural everyday life: his works – brilliant, explanatory, moralising, and socially critical – influenced a whole generation of artists. Being an advocate of natural observation and plein air painting, as well as a critic of academic painting, Waldmüller was far ahead of his time.

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ZUGSPITZE & WAXENSTEIN BY EDWARD H. COMPTON

 

EDWARD H. COMPTON (1861-1960)
Die Zugspitze (2, 962 m - 9, 718 ft) 
Die Waxenstein (2,277m - 7,470ft)
Germany (Bavaria)

In  Blick vom wank auf Alpspitze, Zugspitze und Waxenstein, 1949

The mountain 
The Zugspitze (2,962m -9,718 ft) above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains as well as the highest mountain in Germany. It lies south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and the border between Germany and Austria runs over its western summit. South of the mountain is the Zugspitzplatt, a high karst plateau with numerous caves. On the flanks of the Zugspitze are three glaciers, including the two largest in Germany: the Northern Schneeferner with an area of 30.7 hectares and the Höllentalferner with an area of 24.7 hectares. The third is the Southern Schneeferner which covers 8.4 hectares.
More about the mountain 

The Waxenstein (2,277m - 7,470ft) is an Alpine summit, at an altitude of 2,227 m, in the Wetterstein, Germany (Bavaria). It is composed of five points: the Großer Waxenstein ; the Vorderer Waxenstein  ; the Zwölferkopf ; the Mittagscharte and  the Männ.

The painter 
Edward Harrison Compton (1881–1960) not to be confused with his father Edward Theodore Compton (1849-1921) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of English descent. Compton was born in Feldafing in Upper Bavaria, Germany, the second son of notable landscape painter Edward Theodore Compton. He received his early art training from his father, and after a period of study in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts settled back in Bavaria. Like his father he was inspired by the Alps to become a mountain painter ("bergmaller") working in both oils and watercolour. However, an attack of Polio at the age of 28 meant that he had to find more accessible landscapes to paint in Germany, England northern Italy and Sicily. He also provided illustrations for several travel books published by A & C Black. Compton exhibited at galleries in Munich and Berlin, and also in England at the Royal Academy in London and in Bradford. He died in Feldafing in 1960.
He had two sisters, both of whom were artists: Marion Compton, the flowers and still-life painter, and Dora Keel-Compton, flower and mountain painter.

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THE HÖHER GÖLL PAINTED BY CARL ROTTMANN

CARL ROTTMANN (1797-1850)

Höher Göll (2,522 m (8,274 ft) 

Germany- Austria Border  

In "Hoher Göll im Alpenglühen ", 1846, Oil on canvas, 88 × 112 cm 

Nuremberg Germanisches Nationalmuseum

The  mountain 
The Höher Göll is a 2,522 m (8,274 ft) mountain in the Berchtesgaden Alps, the highest peak of the Göll massif, which straddles the border between the German state of Bavaria and Salzburg, Austria.
Rising above Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden, the massif is situated between the Königssee and the Königsseer Ache in the west, opposite the Watzmann, and the Salzach Valley of the Tennengau region in the east. Neighbouring peaks include Hohes Brett, Jenner and the Kehlstein spur with the famous Kehlsteinhaus, linked with the Hoher Göll via the Mannlgrat ridge.
The first documented ascent was made by the ordinand Valentin Stanič from Bodrež in Gorizia and Gradisca, who at that time studied theology at the nearby University of Salzburg and had also climbed the Watzmann peak.
A wide variety of routes lead to its summit, ranging from UIAA Grade I on a Klettersteig up the Mannlgrat ridge to UIAA Grade VIII up the West face.  The Kehlsteinhaus is located on the German side, at 1,834 m. A trail leads from it to the Mannlgrat, the easiest route to the top.
Another popular round-trip ascent of the Hoher Göll is from the Purtschellerhaus mountain hut up to the summit and down to the Stahl-Haus.

The painter
Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann was a German landscape painter and the most famous member of the Rottmann family of painters. Rottmann belonged to the circle of artists around the Ludwig I of Bavaria, who commissioned large landscape paintings exclusively from him. He is best known for mythical and heroising landscapes. The landscape painter Karl Lindemann-Frommel belonged to his school. Rottmann received his first drawing lessons from his father, Friedrich Rottmann, who taught drawing at the university in Heidelberg. He formed himself chiefly through the study of nature and of great masterworks. In his first artistic period, he painted atmospheric phenomena. After gaining prominence with Heidelberg at Sunset (a water color), and Castle Eltz, he settled in Munich in 1822 and devoted himself to Bavarian scenery. Here his second period began, and in 1824 he married Friedericke, the daughter of his uncle, Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, who served as an attendant at court. Through this connection, he made the acquaintance of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who in 1826/27 sponsored his travels in Italy in order to widen his repertoire, which up to that point consisted solely of domestic, German, landscapes. In Italy, Rottmann made sketches for the 28 Italian landscapes in fresco which he was commissioned to paint in the arcades of the Hofgarten at Munich. The cycle, completed in 1833, gave visual expression to Ludwig’s alliance with Italy, and raised the genre of landscape painting to the height of history painting, the preferred mode of the King’s other great commissions for monumental painting. The frescos unfortunately deteriorated under climatic influences. The cartoons for them are in the Darmstadt Gallery.
In 1834 Rottmann traveled to Greece to prepare for a commission from Ludwig for a second cycle; one might mark here the beginning of his third period. At first also intended for the Hofgarten arcade, the 23 great landscapes (of which the one above) were eventually installed in the newly built Neue Pinakothek where they were given their own hall.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

THE HEUKUPPE PAINTED BY KOLOMAN MOSER

KOLOMAN MOSER (1868–1918) 

Heukuppe (2,007m - 6,585 ft) 

Austria 

In View of the Rax from the Villa Mautner , c. 1913, Oil on canvas, 36 x 48,9 cm.  Private Collection


The mountain
The Heukuppe (2,007m - 6,585 ft) is (together with the nearby Schneeberg) the highest peak in the Rax, a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps on the border of the Austrian federal provinces of Lower Austria and Styria.  They are a traditional mountaineering and mountain walking area, and are called the Wiener Hausberge (Vienna's local mountains). They are separated by the deep Höllental ("Hell Valley").
A cable car, the Raxseilbahn, starting at Hirschwang at the north-eastern foot of the mountains and the first in Austria (construction began in 1925), takes visitors to the extensive, high plateau of the Rax at a height of about 1,500 m. This area is a particular favourite with hikers from Lower Austria and Vienna. The steep sides of the plateau offer climbing tours of various difficulty. These steige (mountain trails) and the hütten, alpine huts offering basic accommodation, were built and are maintained kept by various Austrian Alpine Clubs. They were erected in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The artist
Koloman Moser  was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art and one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte.
In 1905, together with the Klimt group, he separated from the Vienna Secession.

Moser designed a wide array of art works, including books and graphic works from postage stamps to magazine vignettes; fashion; stained glass windows, porcelains and ceramics, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewelry, and furniture.
Koloman was one of the designers for Austria's leading art journal Ver Sacrum. This art journal paid great attention to design and was designed mainly by Moser, Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. His design for the cover of one edition of the art journal was later plagiarized by well known street artist and designer, Shepard Fairey.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

ERLAHOGEL PAINTED BY RICHARD GERSTL

RICHARD GERSTL (1883-1908)

Erlakogel / Schlafende Griechin (1,575m - 5,167ft)

Austria

In - Lake Traunsee with the "Schlafende Griechin" mountain, 1908, Oil on canvas, Leopold Museum


The mountain 
The Erlakogel (1,575m - 5,167ft) is mountain in Austria also popularly called Schlafende Griechin (the "Sleeping Greek"), as it resembles, from a distance, the silhouette of a sleeping woman with flowing hair. It is located in the Upper Austrian Prealps. After the nearby Traunstein the Erlakogel is the highest mountain on the eastern shore of Lake Traun. From the summit one can have a good view of the Traunstein and the Traunsee as well as on the entire Dead Mountains and the Höllengebirge .
In one of its foothills, the 1411 m high Gasselkogel, is the dripstone richest cave of the Northern Limestone Alps, the Gasselhöhle
The mountain is officially marked and secured. Starting from Rindbach / Ebensee the path goes steeply through the forest to Spitzlsteinalm. After crossing the pasture, continue along serpentine roads and over a rocky ridge to the summit of the Erlakogel. The approximate ascent time is 3 hours.

The painter
Richard Gerstl was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with the wife of Arnold Schoenberg which led to his suicide.
Early in his life, Gerstl decided to become an artist, much to the dismay of his father. 

In 1898, at the age of fifteen, Gerstl was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied under the notoriously opinionated and difficult Christian Griepenkerl. Gerstl began to reject the style of the Vienna Secession and what he felt was pretentious art. This eventually prompted his vocal professor to proclaim  : "The way you paint, I piss in the snow!"
Frustrated with the lack of acceptance of his non-secessionist painting style, Gerstl continued to paint without any formal guidance for two years, showing in its painting a nearly abstract style, very avant-garde at that time. For the summers of 1900 and 1901, Gerstl studied under the guidance of Simon Hollósy in Nagybánya. Inspired by the more liberal leanings of Heinrich Lefler, Gerstl once again attempted formal education. Unfortunately, his refusal to participate in a procession in honor of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria further ostracized him and led to his departure. Gerstl felt that taking part in such an event was "unworthy of an artist." 

His final exit from Lefler's studio took place in 1908.

In his short career, he did only 60 paintings...  but what paintings! 

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

HEUKUPPE & THE RAX BY KONRAD PETRIDES

KONRAD PETRIDES  (1864-1944)

Heukuppe (2,007m - 6,585ft) 

Austria

 In Rax mountain- Rax Schneeber -Gruppe, oil on canvas

The mountain 

 The Heukuppe (2,007 m) is the  highest peak of the Rax,  a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps on the border of the Austrian federal provinces of Lower Austria and Styria

The Rax, together with the nearby Schneeberg, are a traditional mountaineering and mountain walking area, and are called the Wiener Hausberge. They are separated by the deep Höllental.

A cable car, the Raxseilbahn, starting at Hirschwang at the north-eastern foot of the mountains and the first in Austria (construction began in 1925), takes visitors to the extensive, high plateau of the Rax at a height of about 1,500 m. This area is a particular favourite with hikers from Lower Austria and Vienna. The steep sides of the plateau offer climbing tours of various difficulty. These steige (mountain trails) and the hütten, alpine huts offering basic accommodation, were built and are maintained kept by various Austrian Alpine Clubs. They were erected in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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.

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DIE WILDSPITZE PAINTED BY EDWARD H. COMPTON

EDWARD H. COMPTON (1861-1960), 

The Wildspitze (3,774 m - 12, 382ft) and the Pitzal Glacier 

Austria (Tyrol) 

In The Pitzal glacier at the foot of the Wildsptize, Tyrol,  oil on canvas, 

The mountain and the glacier 
The Wildspitze (3,774 m - 12, 382ft)  is the highest summit of the Otzal Massif in Austria (Tyrol). At its foot lies the Pitztal Glacier (Pitztaler Gletscher), the highest ski glacier in the Tyrol. Located 100 km from Innsbruck International Airport and 38 km from Imst-Pitztal Station, at the end of the Pitze Valley in the Eastern Alps, the Pitztal Glacier Alpine Ski Area enjoys a snow of quality and a long season because of its altitude and its privileged situation.
The ski area of the Pitztal Glacier is made up of wide tracks like boulevards, suitable for carving. It is more oriented towards skiers at intermediate levels, sportsmen to experts.

The painter 

Edward Harrison Compton (1881–1960) not to be confused with his father Edward Theodore Compton (1849-1921) was a German landscape painter and illustrator of English descent. Compton was born in Feldafing in Upper Bavaria, Germany, the second son of notable landscape painter Edward Theodore Compton. He received his early art training from his father, and after a period of study in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts settled back in Bavaria. Like his father he was inspired by the Alps to become a mountain painter ("bergmaller") working in both oils and watercolour. However, an attack of Polio at the age of 28 meant that he had to find more accessible landscapes to paint in Germany, England northern Italy and Sicily. He also provided illustrations for several travel books published by A & C Black. Compton exhibited at galleries in Munich and Berlin, and also in England at the Royal Academy in London and in Bradford. He died in Feldafing in 1960.
He had two sisters, both of whom were artists: Marion Compton, the flowers and still-life painter, and Dora Keel-Compton, flower and mountain painter.
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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

ELLMAUER HALT PAINTED BY ALFONS WALDE

ALFONS WALDE (1891-1958)

Ellmauer Halt (2,344 m  - 7,690 ft)

Austria

  In  Büchlach et le Wilder Kaiser, oil on paper, 1925

The mountain 
The Ellmauer Halt (2,344 m  - 7,690 ft)  is an alpine summit,  the highest point of the Kaisergebirge, and in particular the Wilder Kaiser range in Austria (Tyrolean Land).
The massif is surrounded by the Chiemgau Alps to the north, the Loferer Steinberge to the east, the Kitzbühel Alps to the south and the Brandenberg Alps to the west.
It is bordered on the west by the Inn.
It is composed of two main links oriented in an east-west axis about twenty kilometers long: the highest, the Wilder Kaiser (literally "Wild Emperor") in the south, and the Zahmer Kaiser ("Emperor Tamed") in North. They are separated by the Kaisertal ("Valley of the Emperor") and are connected only at the Stripsenjoch, at 1,580 meters above sea level.
The first dated traces of the human settlement in the Kaisergebirge are estimated from the 3rd millennium BC. These are the remains of hunters from the Stone Age in the cave of Tischof. Other finds prove the presence of settlements in the Bronze Age in the cavities. The documents relating to the settlement of Kaisertal in the Middle Ages date back to 1430. This is a contract to sell a farm called Hinterkaiser. The name "Kaiser" in this area is older and is already in 1240 in a list of goods Kitzbühel enacted by a certain Gamsgiayt Chaiser.
Tourism development begins in the Kaisergebirge in the second half of the 19th century. Until the end of this century, there are also many firsts. However, it is assumed that the greatest peaks had already been sporadically erected by the natives without this having ever been manifested. Then, until the First World War, the limestone walls of the Wilder Kaiser were the cradle of the Munich climbing scene, where the famous pioneers such as Hans Dülfer completely revolutionized the climbing adventure and athletic. Then, until the 1960s, the fixation techniques of these two disciplines were practically completed. In 1977, the 7th degree of difficulty is introduced with the free climbing of Pumprisse by Reinhard Karl and Helmut Kiene at Fleischbank. In the 1970s and 1980s, a series of sometimes extremely difficult sports routes were opened in the massif.

The artist 

Alfons Walde  was an Austrian artist and architect, best known for his winter landscapes and farming images, especially skiing and sporting scenes, painted in tempera or impastoed oil paint. Many of his paintings can be seen in the Museum gallery in Kitzbühel.
Walde  produced his first watercolour and tempera paintings during his school days. From 1910 to 1914 he studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, while continuing his education as a painter. In the Danubian metropolis he moved in artistic circles that included Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, and he became influenced by Ferdinand Hodler.
In 1911 Walde had his first exhibition in Innsbruck, and in 1913 presented four farm pictures at the prestigious Vienna Secession exhibition. From 1914 to 1917 he actively participated in World War I as a Tyrolean Kaiserschütze in the high mountains. After returning to Kitzbühel, he fully devoted himself to painting and participated again in exhibitions of the Secession and the Vienna Künstlerhaus throughout the 1920s. He was active as a graphic artist, and beginning in 1926 designed many posters.
By around 1928 Walde had finally found his own characteristic style, one that gave expression to both the Tyrolean mountain scenery – particularly the living winter landscapes – and its robust people through the use of highly reduced drawings and pastel colouring. Throughout the rest of his artistic career his work stayed with the subject of his homeland, and retained the same distinct native style.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

THE KAISER MOUNTAINS PAINTED BY ALFONS WALDE

ALFONS WALDE (1891-1958)

Kaiser mountains   (2,344 m- 7,690 ft)

Austria 

 In  Ergfrühling (Wilder Kaiser), c. 1920. Oil on cardboard, 78.5 x 100 cm

The mountains 

The Kaiser Mountains  or  Kaisergebirge, meaning Emperor mountains  or just Kaiser, are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps and Eastern Alps. It consists of two main mountain ridges – the Zahmer Kaiser ("gentle or tame emperor") to the north ,mainly covered by mountain pine and the Wilder Kaiser ("wild or fierce emperor") to the south, formed predominantly of bare limestone rock. The entire range is situated in the Austrian state of Tyrol between the town of Kufstein and the market town of St. Johann in Tirol. The Kaiser Mountains offer some of the loveliest scenery in all the Northern Limestone Alps. 

These two mountain ridges are linked by the 1,580 m- high Stripsenjoch pass, but are separated in the west by the valley of Kaisertal and in the east by the Kaiserbach valley. In total the Kaiser extends for about 20 km (12 mi) in an east-west direction and about 14 km (8.7 mi) from north to south, giving a total area of some 280 square kilometres (110 sq mi). 

The Zahmer Kaiser only just breaks through the 2,000 metre barrier (in the Vordere Kesselschneid). The highest elevation in the Wilder Kaiser is the Ellmauer Halt in the borough of Kufstein at 2,344 metres (7,690 ft). There are around forty other summits, including many well-known climbing peaks such as the Karlspitzen, Totenkirchl, Fleischbank, Predigtstuhl, Goinger Halt, Ackerlspitze and Maukspitze.

 The artist 

Alfons Walde  was an Austrian artist and architect, best known for his winter landscapes and farming images, especially skiing and sporting scenes, painted in tempera or impastoed oil paint. Many of his paintings can be seen in the Museum gallery in Kitzbühel.
Walde  produced his first watercolour and tempera paintings during his school days. From 1910 to 1914 he studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, while continuing his education as a painter. In the Danubian metropolis he moved in artistic circles that included Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, and he became influenced by Ferdinand Hodler.
In 1911 Walde had his first exhibition in Innsbruck, and in 1913 presented four farm pictures at the prestigious Vienna Secession exhibition. From 1914 to 1917 he actively participated in World War I as a Tyrolean Kaiserschütze in the high mountains. After returning to Kitzbühel, he fully devoted himself to painting and participated again in exhibitions of the Secession and the Vienna Künstlerhaus throughout the 1920s. He was active as a graphic artist, and beginning in 1926 designed many posters.
By around 1928 Walde had finally found his own characteristic style, one that gave expression to both the Tyrolean mountain scenery – particularly the living winter landscapes – and its robust people through the use of highly reduced drawings and pastel colouring. Throughout the rest of his artistic career his work stayed with the subject of his homeland, and retained the same distinct native style.

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2018 - Men Portraits 
Un blog de Francis Rousseau

THE KAISER MOUNTAINS PAINTED BY TONI HALLER

TONI HALLER (1907-1944)

 Ellmauer Halt / Kaiser mountains (2,344 m - 7,690 ft) 

Austria

  in The Kaisertal in the Evening Light, 1938, Private collection 

The mountain 

The Ellmauer Halt (2,344 m - 7,690 ft) is the highest peak in the mountain massif of the Wilder Kaiser in the Kaiser range (Northern Limestone Alps) in the Austrian state of Tyrol. To the east is the summit of the Kapuzenturm, a striking and isolated rock pinnacle. In 1883 the first summit cross was erected on the mountain top.

The Kaiser Mountains or just Kaiser, are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps and Eastern Alps. It consists of two main mountain ridges – the Zahmer Kaiser ("gentle or tame emperor") to the north and the Wilder Kaiser ("wild or fierce emperor") to the south. The entire range is situated in the Austrian state of Tyrol between the town of Kufstein and the market town of St. Johann in Tirol. The Kaiser Mountains offer some of the loveliest scenery in all the Northern Limestone Alps.

The painter 

Toni Haller, also known as Hans Sterbik, was an Austrian painter  born in 1907. Not a lot of informations about his life are available except he lived and worked in Vienna.  His work comprises landscapes and predominantly mountains landcapes. He found his motifs in Tyrol, the Salzkammergut, and the Dolomites.  Many works by Toni Haller have been sold at auction, including 'Winter in den Dolomiten' sold in 2011 for $7,563. The artist died in 1944.
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2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

HOHER DACHSTEIN BY RUDOLF SWOBODA THE ELDER

RUDOLF SWOBODA THE ELDER  (1819-1859) 

Hoher Dachstein (2, 995 m - 9,826 ft)
Austria 

 In Festlicher Almabtrieb im Hochgebirge, oil on canvas, 1840,  Private collection

The mountain 
Hoher Dachstein (2, 995m - 9,826ft) is a strongly karstic Austrian mountain, and the second highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria in central Austria, and is the highest point in each of those states. Parts of the massif also lie in the state of Salzburg, leading to the mountain being referred to as the Drei-Lander-Berg ("three-state mountain"). The Dachstein massif covers an area of around 20x30 km with dozens of peaks above 2,500 m, the highest of which are in the southern and south-western areas. Seen from the north, the Dachstein massif is dominated by the glaciers with the rocky summits rising beyond them. By contrast, to the south, the mountain drops almost vertically to the valley floor (see above).
The summit was first reached in 1832 by Peter Gappmayr, via the Gosau glacier, after an earlier attempt by Erzherzog Karl via the Hallstätter glacier had failed. Within two years of Gappmayr's success a wooden cross had been erected at the summit. The first person to reach the summit in winter was Friedrich Simony, on 14 January 1847. The sheer southern face was first climbed on 22 September 1909 by the brothers Irg and Franz Steiner.

The painter  
Rudolf Swoboda the elder or Senior (1819-1859) was a landscape and animal painter, coming from a Vienna family of artists  with his niece Josefine Swoboda (1861-1924) ans his nephew Rudolf Swoboda the younger or Junior (1859-1914) famous to have painted Indian portraits for Queen Victoria. Rudolf Swoboda the elder  received numerous orders from the Austrian imperial house and other noble houses in Vienna which made him one of the most active Vienna landscapists.  His landscapes often includes  scenes with farmers playing music and dancing or animals depictions in a gentle and naive atmosphere.

2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
Un blog de Francis Rousseau

THE BRENNER PASS BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS ALBANIS BEAUMONT (1753-1812)

JEAN-FRANÇOIS ALBANIS BEAUMONT (1753-1812)

The Brenner Pass (1,372m - 4,501ft)  

Austria - Italy border 

In Montagne de Brenner, 1797, drawing from Picturesque travel to the Pennine Alps

The mountain
The Brenner pass (1,372m - 4,501ft) is an Alpine pass separating Italy (the municipality of Brennero in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano) from Austria (Gries in Tyrol).  The Brenner pass connects the Stubai Alps to the west to the Zillertal Alps to the east, between the peaks of Sattelberg (2,115m - 6,939ft) and Wolfendorn (2,776m - 9,107ft). It separates the southern and northern parts of the Wipptal, a valley formed by Isarco to the south and Sill to the north, extending from Fortezza to Innsbruck. The pass marks the Italian-Austrian border and the watershed between the drainage basin of the Adriatic Sea (Adige) and the Black Sea (Inn and Danube). It is the lowest and most frequented passage between the north and the south of the main ridge of the Alps and the only one that a large transit railway crosses in the open sky. It is also crossed by the Brenner motorway leading from Modena to Innsbruck, part of the European Route 45.
The construction of the motorway began in 1957. On this occasion was built the Europabrücke, which was until 1974 the highest bridge in Europe with 190 m  (623 ft)high.

The painter
Sir  Jean-François Albanis Beaumont, draughtsman, aquatint engraver, and landscape painter, was born in Chambery in 1753, but naturalized in England.  He studied classics in Chambéry and when he was 17 years old went to Paris. He studied 4 years at the Royal College of Engineering of Mézières and received several commissions in the Bourbonnais.
Returning in 1775 to Chambéry, he designed the decorations for the celebrations of the marriage of Clotilde de France and Prince Charles-Emmanuel. Engineer Filippo Nicolis di Robilant encouraged him to work for king Victor Amadeus III, who placed him with the chief engineer of the county of Nice, where he took part in the important works underway in Port Lympia. He was inscribed on April 30, 1780, in the class of civil architects of the University of Turin.
He accompanied the Duke of Gloucester, William Frederick of Hanover in his Grand Tour (Germany, Italy, France and Switzerland), who subsequently entrusted him with the education of his children. He then settled in Britain and married an Englishwoman of Protestant religion.
In 1787 he began to publish his first works illustrated with his own drawings "Picturesque travel to the Pennine Alps", "Historical and picturesque journey of the County of Nice", "Journey through the Rhaetian Alps in 1786", "Selected views of antiquities And ports in the south of France "and" Travel through the Maritime Alps".
In 1796, his mission was completed and he could return to Savoie and settle near Genevawhere in 1798 he bought a small agricultural estate on the commune of Thônex with which he planned to enter the  trade of wool. He does not find the success expected and must soon resell everything and resume his work as geographer and traveler.
In 1800, he published "Journey in the Alps Lepontine from France to Italy" and then "Description of the Greek and CoteAlps" (1802 and 1806).
In 1810, he died at the monastery of Sixt of which he became the owner. He had resumed the exploitation of the iron mines, but he faced too many difficulties. He is buried on the spot.
The views of the towns and landscapes he drew are very sought after and give an idea of ​​the appearance of these places at the time.

MITTAGSKOGEL / KEPA PAINTED BY MARCUS PERNHART

MARCUS PERNHART (1824-1871)

Mittagskogel / Kepa (2,145 m - 7,037 ft)

Austria, Slovenia border

In Mittagskogel ud Villacher Becken vom Dobratsch gegen Osten, oil on canvas, 1850 

The mountain 

The Mittagskogel in Austrian or Kepa in Slovenian ( 2,145 m- 7,037 ft) is the third highest mountain in the Karawanks range, after Hochstuhl/Stol and the Vertratscha/Vrtača. It is located on the border between Slovenia and Austria.

The massif consisting of main dolomite and Dachstein limestone beds rises between the Slovene Sava valley in the south and the Austrian Drau basin in the north. Its steep northern face, resembling a rocky pyramid with a rounded summit is a landmark in Carinthia.

The mountain is usually climbed from the village of Belca on its Slovenian side.  An Alpine club hut, the Berta Hut, located at an elevation of 1,567 m (5,141 ft), can be reached from the Austrian municipality of Finkenstein; from here, the normal route leads to the summit.

Mentioned as Copan mons in a 1650 map, the German oronym Mittagskogel (Midday Peak) denotes the position of the sun above the summit at noon.

The painter 

Markus Pernhart was a Carinthian Slovenian / Austrian painter. He is considered the first Slovene realistic landscape painter. Early on, he began to paint panels ans humorous works, offered at Klagenfurt weekly market. At  barely 12 years, he painted the guest rooms of Krajcar Restaurant between Klagenfurt and Völkermarkt. The innkeeper made, the bishop's chaplain Henr. Hermann discovered the talented boys. At 15, he trained in painting first with Andreas Hauser in Klagenfurt.  Soon after, he got contact with the Viennese art scene, particularly to Franz Steinfeld, who taught at the Academy of Fine Arts. It was forwarded to the Munich Academy, but soon returned to Carinthia. There he was promoted by his stage name Pernhart the famous landscape painter of his time.

When Pernhart's drawing style had fully developed, he was asked by Max Moro to draw all Castles Carinthia. The idea was to these buildings if they could often for financial reasons can not be obtained, at least to preserve the picture, thereby preserving from decay. Markus Pernhart does not disappoint its customers and held in pencil drawings smallest details of the well-preserved, but also the already partly decayed plants firmly. Already in 1853, he produced 40 drawings followed by 198 others, he property of the Historical Association for Carinthia. In 1855  he gave the Carinthian estates Empress Elisabeth, an album of 21 drawings to which Max Moro contributed. Entitled images from Carinthia  appeared  in 1863-1868 in deliveries as steel engravings with accompanying. After his death appeared 5 lithographic panoramic images (Klagenfurt in 1875 and 1889). 

His entire painted oeuvre consists of approximately 1,200  paintings, drawings and engravings that delight even after his death a large appreciation. Pernhart presented landscapes, preferably lakes and high mountain motifs or castles, but also animals and still life subjects, in an idyllic and pathetic style. His works can be seen against the background of an incipient leisure society, they lead before the regional status objects of his home.

THE HOHER DACHSTEIN PAINTED BY TONI HALLER

TONI HALLER (1907-1944)

Hoher Dachstein (2, 995m - 9,826ft)

 Austria 

In Lake Gosau with the Dachstein, oil on canvas, private collection 

The painter 

Toni Haller, also known as Hans Sterbik, was an Austrian painter  born in 1907. Not a lot of informations about his life are available except he lived and worked in Vienna.  His work comprises landscapes and predominantly mountains landcapes. He found his motifs in Tyrol, the Salzkammergut, and the Dolomites.  Many works by Toni Haller have been sold at auction, including 'Winter in den Dolomiten' sold in 2011 for $7,563. The artist died in 1944.

The mountain 
Hoher Dachstein (2, 995m - 9,826ft) is a strongly karstic Austrian mountain, and the second highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria in central Austria, and is the highest point in each of those states. Parts of the massif also lie in the state of Salzburg, leading to the mountain being referred to as the Drei-Lander-Berg ("three-state mountain"). The Dachstein massif covers an area of around 20x30 km with dozens of peaks above 2,500 m, the highest of which are in the southern and south-western areas. Seen from the north, the Dachstein massif is dominated by the glaciers with the rocky summits rising beyond them. By contrast, to the south, the mountain drops almost vertically to the valley floor (see above).
The summit was first reached in 1832 by Peter Gappmayr, via the Gosau glacier, after an earlier attempt by Erzherzog Karl via the Hallstätter glacier had failed. Within two years of Gappmayr's success a wooden cross had been erected at the summit. The first person to reach the summit in winter was Friedrich Simony, on 14 January 1847. The sheer southern face was first climbed on 22 September 1909 by the brothers Irg and Franz Steiner.