Ziegelhütte bei Olevano,

um 1830

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

46,4 x 58,2 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 2

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11464

Acquisition

Vor 1866 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Joseph Anton Koch, Ziegelhütte bei Olevano, um 1830, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/2mxqDN748b (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

It was Koch who discovered the Sabine hills east of Rome as a subject for landscapes. Nature there, he said, had `a primordial character, of the kind one imagines when reading the Bible or Homer¿. For successive generations of German landscape painters the village of Olevano acquired almost mythical status. In these ancient-seeming surroundings farmers and artisans were shown working in harmony with nature.