MONTE CIVETTA PEINT PAR FRITZ PAPLHAM

FRITZ PAPLHAM (1888-1958)
Monte Civetta (3,220m)
Italie (Vénétie)

La montagne
Monte Civetta (3,220m) est un sommet des Alpes culminant à 3 220 mètres dans les Dolomites, en Italie (Vénétie). Au sens large, la Civetta est un groupe montagneux des Dolomites. Outre son sommet principal, Monte Civetta, possède plusieurs sommets secondaires dont : la Punta Civetta (2 920 m) ; la Cima della Busazza (2 894 m) ; le Monte Moiazetta (2 727 m) ; la Torre di Valgrande (2 715 m) ; la Torre d'Alleghe (2 649 m) ; la Torre Coldai (2 600 m) ; la Cima di Mede (2 504 m). Le versant nord-ouest la Civetta se développe sur plus de 7 km de longueur depuis la Torre Coldai (2 600 m) au nord jusqu'à la Torre Venezia (2 337 m) et sur près de 1 200 mètres de haut à l'aplomb du sommet. Cette grande paroi et son arête sommitale donnent à la Civetta une silhouette caractéristique. De 1910 à 1968, seize voies ont été ouvertes sur le versant nord-ouest de la Civetta, de la Piccola Civetta (3 207 m) à la Torre di Valgrande (2 715 m). La conquête en 1925 du sommet principal par Emil Solleder et Gustav Lettenhauer est la première ascension extrêmement difficile réalisée dans le secteur.

L'artiste
Fritz Paplham fut un photographe et paysagiste autrichien auquel l'on doit quelques rares peintures des Alpes, préférant la photographie où il rencontra un certain succès à la peinutre où il n'en eut point !
Il commença la photographie au collège.  En 1912,  une photo de lui "Maria Gern" est publié dans  le catalogue de l'exposition de la Société pour la photographie au Club de montagne autrichien.  Lors de l'exposition de 1931 de la Society for Photography au Austrian Mountain Club à Vienne, "Une série d'excellentes diapositives pigmentaires et une douzaine de diapositives stéréo aux couleurs brillantes" apparaissent. Il se fait alors une spécialité dfe la photographie de montagne colorisée. En 1942, devenu membre du groupe de photographes du Club de Montagnes autrichien, il reçoit la Médaille de bronze de la Société  de la Société photographique de Vienne couvrant l'ensemble de  ses "grandes réalisations dans le domaine de la photographie couleur". 

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MONTE CIVETTA PAINTED BY ELIJAH WALTON

 

ELIJAH WALTON (1832-1880)
Monte Civetta (3,220 m - 10, 580 ft)
Italy

In Dolomites - in Spring. Civetta from Forcella Staulanza (North East), 1875 oil on canvas, 38 x 183 cm.

The mountain
Monte Civetta (3,220 m - 10, 580 ft) is a prominent and major mountain of the Dolomites, in the Province of Belluno in northern Italy. Its north-west face can be viewed from the Taibon Agordino valley, and is classed as one of the symbols of the Dolomites. The mountain is thought to have been first climbed by Simeone di Silvestro in 1855, which, if true, makes it the first major Dolomite peak to be climbed. The north-western face, with its 1,000-metre-high cliff, was first climbed in 1925 by Emil Solleder and Gustl Lettenbauer. It is historically considered the first "sixth grade" in six-tier scale of alpinistic difficulties proposed by Willo Welzenbach (corresponding to 5.9). Thirty years later UIAA used this as a basis for its grading system. The famed Svan mountain climber Mikhail Khergiani died in a climbing accident on Monte Civetta in 1969.

The artist
The British landscapist, Elijah Walton is best known for his landscapes of mountains in the Alps. Due to the poorness of his family, without the help of one or two friends he would have been unable to study art, for which his talent was soon exhibited. After passing some years at the art academy in Birmingham, he became at the age of eighteen a student at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he had already exhibited a picture. There he worked assiduously, drawing from the antique and from life. Nearly ten years later an accidental circumstance revealed to a friend his capabilities in mountain landscape, and in 1860, immediately after his marriage, he went to Switzerland. Thence he proceeded to Egypt, where unhappily his wife died of dysentery near the second cataract. He remained in the east, spending some time in Syria and at Constantinople, till the spring of 1862, when he returned for a short time to London. But for the next five years he was much abroad, working either in the Alps or in Egypt. His sketching tours then became rarer and shorter, though he visited Greece, Norway, and the Alps. At first he resided at Staines, then removed to the neighbourhood of Bromsgrove, living most of the time at the Forelands, near that town. In 1872 his wife died, and the loss permanently affected his health. He died on 25 August 1880 at his residence Beacon Farm, Lickey near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, leaving three sons. Walton's life was bound up in his art. He worked both in oils and in watercolours, but was more successful with the latter. Most thorough and conscientious in the study both of form and of colour, he delighted especially in mountain scenery and in atmospheric effects, such as an Alpine peak breaking through the mists, or a sunset on the Nile. Few men have equalled him in the truthful rendering of rock structure and mountain form. His pictures were much appreciated by lovers of nature; but as those of small size sold better than larger and more highly finished works, this fostered a tendency to mannerisms.

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