Ideale Frühlingslandschaft,

1871

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

73,5 x 59,6 cm

Displayed

Sammlung Schack Saal 17

Department

19. Jahrhundert

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

11527

Acquisition

1871 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München

Citation

Arnold Böcklin, Ideale Frühlingslandschaft, 1871, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/9pL3BAjxeb (Last updated on 19.06.2023)

The viewer is transported to the Renaissance age. Men and women are engaged in leisure pursuits in a park next to a villa. Schack stresses the ‘fabulous character’ of the painting, noting that, ‘as with some pictures by Giorgione, what it represents cannot actually be established. It is sufficient that it creates a poetic impression, appearing to us like a landscape we have seen in a beautiful dream’.