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The Lake Country-Sketchbook , June 23-July 18th 1863
In addition to a number of studies on the flora of the Lakes, two sketchbooks of Linton with landscape views have come down to us. One is in the collection of Yale University, another in the Linton-Archive of the Melton Prior Institute. The latter contains watercolours and drawings made during hikes in the North East […]
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Rebellious Landscapes – William James Linton´s art of graphic Macchia.
Lintoniana VI What had laid the foundations for Linton’s reputation as a leading proponent of artistic xylography in the 19th century was the extraordinary intensity of his landscape depictions and the graphic freedom that he allowed himself to this end. The apex of his decade-long landscape work was marked in the mid 1860s by the […]
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Documenting an excavation , Tell Munbaqa, Syria, Sept. 2010
In this series of drawings and paintings of the archaeological work at the ancient hill of Munbaqa in Syria Dutch artist and archaeologist Theo de Feyter caught the situations and atmosphere which are characteristic for this kind of activity. The images depict the working procedures of the Syrian labourers and the members of the excavation […]
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“I took with me a painter” – Archaeologists, artists, draughtsmen and photographers in excavation.
After a conversation on archaeology and drawing, which took place in the MePri in 2006, this rather historical contribution is a second inquiry in the relationship between art, visual documentation and archaeology. I. Drawing an excavation In a series of drawings of the archaeological work at the ancient hill of Munbaqa in Syria I tried […]
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On Cotman´s Trail in Normandy
John Sell Cotman is mainly known for his groundbreaking retinal and neoclassical approach to landscape painting which showed him as an early precursor of Cezanne. In contrast, his huge body of etchings enjoys a rather bad reputation. It is said that his printed works, which he mainly executed in commission of his patron Dawson Turner, […]
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Me too in Verdun # 2 – On the Views and Drawings of the War Traveller Goethe.
II) The Old Empire Strikes Back Just a few months after the disastrous end of the campaign against France, Goethe once again functioned as a monarchist campaign propagandist – this time in putting down the Mainzer Republik, the first democratic state on German soil, which had been established with the support of the French revolutionary […]
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Illustrated Russia
These drawings were made on-site on a stay in Moscow and the provincial towns around from July 08 to August 09 of 2009. The series focuses on Russia as a country of dramatic transitions, on the contrast between the remnants of its czarist and Soviet past and the current signs of a new global capitalist […]
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Melchior Lorck: Precursor of the “specials”
New Release The projected monumental five-volume set (four of them are available now) by Erik Fischer is the first extensive monographic treatment of one of the most interesting artists of the 16th Century. Melchior Lorck, or Lorch, originally Loris, born in 1526/27 in the former Danish Flensburg, was a contemporary of Pieter Breugel the Elder […]
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Absolutely Drawpassing – Crossing the USA with binoculars, magnifier and a watergun
extracts from a book by Tobias Greiner INTRODUCTION: Extracts from five chapters out of my Absolutely Drawpassing reportage book are presented as pdf files. Most of the works focus on drawings. Some photo images, real objects and installations are added that I have developed during my Drawpassing tours. The Drawpassing chapters presented here show 1. my Drawpassing practice/method 2. different places in the […]
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Theodor Rocholl – The Broken Historical Painter
It was just always this swaying between a depressed mood and exaggerated self-confidence. This was always caused by the many years of dropping out of society. Something was bent inside me at the time and it never straightened up again. A certain dread of making new acquaintances always impeded me in an extraordinary way and […]