The horseman asking for the way
| Reference: | S5526 |
| Author | Johann Cristoph ERHARD |
| Year: | 1816 |
| Measures: | 200 x 110 mm |
€105.00
| Reference: | S5526 |
| Author | Johann Cristoph ERHARD |
| Year: | 1816 |
| Measures: | 200 x 110 mm |
€105.00
Description
Etching, signed and dated lower right in plate: "JC Erhard inv. 1817".
Very good condition.
Johann Christoph Erhard (* February 21, 1795 in Nuremberg; † January 20, 1822 in Rome) was a German painter and etcher of the Romantic period. He attended the Zwinger'sche Zeichnenschule and from 1809 was apprenticed to the Nuremberg engraver Ambrosius Gabler. There he learned engraving and etching, developing a particular inclination for the landscape subject. During this time, Erhard became close friends with the artists Johann Adam Klein and Georg Christoph Wilder; he went on excursions with them into the surrounding countryside to make studies of nature. The Russian troops that frequently passed through Nuremberg in the years 1812 to 1814 gave him the opportunity to draw horses and military groups.
Reference
Apell, Das Werk von Johann Christoph Erhard…, 82.
Johann Cristoph ERHARD (Norimberga 1795 - Roma 1822)
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Erhard trained as an artist in his hometown of Nuremberg He moved to Vienna in 1816 with his close friend, Johann Adam Klein, and stayed there until October 1819 when he traveled to Rome, He committed suicide there in 1822. Erhard's etchings from his Vienna period count among his masterpieces and must also be seen in the context ot landscapes by his Austrian contemporaries.
In 1817 he had traveled with his frierids Ernst Welker and Heinrich Reinhold through the Höllenthal in Niederosterreich (Lower Austria), tlanked by the Schneeberg mountain on one side and Rax mountain on the other. This picturesque area not far from Vienna was especially popular with artists during the early nineteenth century. Erhard produced a series of etchings based on sketches he had made in the valley, published in 1818 by Ferdinand Kettner in Vienna under the title VI Ansichten aus den Umgebungen des Schneeberges bei Wiener Neustadr (Apell 11-16).
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Johann Cristoph ERHARD (Norimberga 1795 - Roma 1822)
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Erhard trained as an artist in his hometown of Nuremberg He moved to Vienna in 1816 with his close friend, Johann Adam Klein, and stayed there until October 1819 when he traveled to Rome, He committed suicide there in 1822. Erhard's etchings from his Vienna period count among his masterpieces and must also be seen in the context ot landscapes by his Austrian contemporaries.
In 1817 he had traveled with his frierids Ernst Welker and Heinrich Reinhold through the Höllenthal in Niederosterreich (Lower Austria), tlanked by the Schneeberg mountain on one side and Rax mountain on the other. This picturesque area not far from Vienna was especially popular with artists during the early nineteenth century. Erhard produced a series of etchings based on sketches he had made in the valley, published in 1818 by Ferdinand Kettner in Vienna under the title VI Ansichten aus den Umgebungen des Schneeberges bei Wiener Neustadr (Apell 11-16).
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