Lot Essay
Presumably drawn in Sicily, 1804
'From Schinkel's journey to Italy and Sicily, begun in 1803 - and concluded in 1805 - some 400 drawings, for the most part carefully executed, have survived. They testify to the way Schinkel, schooling eye and hand, developed a way of seeing landscape'. (H. Börsch-Supan in the catalogue of the exhibition, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 31 July-27 Oct., 1991, p. 13)
'In those years Schinkel swung between seeing himself as more of a painter or more of an architect - most of his landscape paintings were, however, done before 1815 and his skill as a painter and his Romantic outlook became highly developed'. (G. Riemann, op. cit., p. 94) These works are reminiscent of the landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich.
'From Schinkel's journey to Italy and Sicily, begun in 1803 - and concluded in 1805 - some 400 drawings, for the most part carefully executed, have survived. They testify to the way Schinkel, schooling eye and hand, developed a way of seeing landscape'. (H. Börsch-Supan in the catalogue of the exhibition, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 31 July-27 Oct., 1991, p. 13)
'In those years Schinkel swung between seeing himself as more of a painter or more of an architect - most of his landscape paintings were, however, done before 1815 and his skill as a painter and his Romantic outlook became highly developed'. (G. Riemann, op. cit., p. 94) These works are reminiscent of the landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich.