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Alpine Scenery
Lost Art-ID
108271
Artist
Savery, Roelant
Birth
1576 / 1578, Courtrai
Death
(vor) 1639.02.25, Utrecht
Place of activity
Amsterdam; Prag; Wien; Utrecht
Title
Alpine Scenery
Datierung
1600-1650
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
oak / painted
Height
48.00 cm
Width
59.00 cm
Inventory number
Ahv 27
Description
Between steep cliffs, the waters of a mountain stream gather and rush down over the cliffs in the foreground; gnarled oaks, some of them toppled, spread their roots over the rocks; the central body of water has attracted herons and geese; just as the blue mountains in the background, the water is illuminated by the sunshine coming in from the left; goats and ducks appear in the darker foreground, and numerous birds, including sparrowhawk, chaffinch, bullfinch, woodpecker, kingfisher, raven and dove, can be seen in the sky; on the left, in a cave enclosed by tree trunks, a hermit sits with a bible, talking to a wayfarer.
Provenance
May 10, 1935, Alfred Unger, restorer in Dresden, sends the restored Savery to Gotha (file 3405); exhibited in 1935 in the Museum, Oberlichtsaal 2; mentioned in letter of July 17, 1937 (file 3475); present in the museum in 1943 (catalog 1943, p. 35:); lost in 1945 (cf. loss documentation); whereabouts unknown.
Literature / Source
Inventar 1764, fol. 110r, Nr. 18; SSFG, SM, Archiv, Akte 3405 (1935); Akte 3475 (1937); Katalog 1943, Bl. 35; Verlustdokumentation Neumeister: „Paulus Brill“, 1945 Verlust; ThHStAWeimar, Thüringisches Ministerium für Volksbildung und Justiz, Abteilung Volksbildung in Weimar über Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha’sche Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft, C 1624
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Contact
Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein
Gotha
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
Germany
Phone
0049 (0) 03621 8234-0
Fax
0049 (0) 03621 8234-290
Contact
Dr. Timo Trümper
Position
Kustode für Gemälde und Plastik
Phone
+49 (0) 3621 8234 553
Contact
Dr. Tobias Pfeifer-Helke
Position
Stiftungsdirektor
Phone
+49 (0) 621-8234 100
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