MONTE DURANNO BY CARL HUMMEL

Carl Hummel (1821-1907)

Monte Duranno  (2,652 m - 8, 700 ft) 

Italy 

In Ansicht von Pieve di Cadore, oil on canvas,  (130 x 180 cm), 1902, Private collection  

The mountain 

Mount Duranno  (2,652 m - 8, 700 ft)  is a mountain in the Friulian Dolomites, more precisely called the Dolomiti d 'Oltre Piave , in the Carnic Prealps in Italy . It is located between the Veneto (province of Belluno) and in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (province of Pordenone). It is a mountain of the Cima dei Preti Group -Duranno, partly included in the natural park of the Friulian Dolomites. One can climb the mountain from the Maniago refuge.

The painter

The german landcape painter and etcher Carl Maria Nicolaus Hummel was the son of Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel and the opera singer Elisabeth Röckel. His studies began in 1841 under Friedrich Preller at the Fürstliche freie Zeichenschule Weimar. After graduating, he made several study trips to England, Norway, Rügen and the Tyrol, lingering in Italy and Sicily until 1846. Upon his return, he settled in Weimar, where he became a professor at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School in 1860. His paintings focus primarily on the Italian and Tyrolean Alps. They are widely displayed at museums throughout Northern Europe, including the Musée de la Vie Romantique in Paris.

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