The uniform atmospheric effect of the flat landscape is a determining factor. This is caused by fleeting brush strokes that resolve the contour. All elements, air and light, man and beast as well as the ruin, are subordinated to the mood.
Provenance
1941 Galerie Almas Dietrich, Munich to GNM
Literature / Source
Renaissance. Barock. Aufklärung. Kunst und Kultur vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. von Daniel Hess und Dagmar Hirschfelder. (Die Schausammlungen des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Band 3) Nürnberg 2010, S. 467.
