Weite südliche Küstenlandschaft in der Abenddämmerung,

1770/80

Material / Technology / Carrier

Öl auf Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

139,1 x 184,6 cm

Displayed

Not on display

Department

19th-century Painting

Genre

Painting

Inventory number

HUW 36

Acquisition

Dauerleihgabe der HypoVereinsbank, Member of UniCredit - 1978 aus dem Kunsthandel durch die Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek München

Citation

Richard Wilson, Weite südliche Küstenlandschaft in der Abenddämmerung, 1770/80, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/QKGBJjyGBb (Last updated on 14.04.2025)

Wilson is considered by many to be the father of British landscape painting. Influenced principally by the light-flooded, idealised classical landscapes of Claude Lorraine, he surprised the artistic establishment by taking some of his motifs from the countryside in Britain. In these images he paved the way for the almost documentary approach to indigenous natural surroundings explored by John Constable and J. M. W. Turner.