Leopold Bode
(1831-1906)
Die Alpenbraut,
1864
Material / Technology / Carrier
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions of the object
75,4 x 43,8 cm
Displayed
Not on display
Acquisition
1864 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack vom Frankfurter Kunstverein erworben
Stock
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München
Citation
Leopold Bode, Die Alpenbraut, 1864, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/A0GOY0lxdp (Last updated on 19.06.2023)
‘Die Schneebraut’ (The Bride of the Snow, 1826), a ballad by the Austrian poet Johann Gabriel Seidl, tells of a glacier nymph’s love for a hunter of mountain goats. He does not return her love, so she follows him one day up a steep path and drags him down into a ‘cool rocky tomb’ where she ‘plays her love games with him’. Bode’s painting shows the nymph clinging to the hunter, who is only just managing to keep his footing on the rocky ledge.
