Edward Jakob von Steinle
(1810-1886)
Der Türmer,
1859
Material / Technology / Carrier
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions of the object
140,5 x 69,6 cm
Displayed
Sammlung Schack Saal 8
Acquisition
1863 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack vom Künstler erworben
Stock
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München
Citation
Edward Jakob von Steinle, Der Türmer, 1859, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Sammlung Schack München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Qlx2dv1GXq (Last updated on 19.06.2023)
Schack admired Steinle less for his religious paintings, for which the artist was best known in his own day, than for his fairytale-like images of subjects from the world of medieval legend and Romantic poetry. The warden in this picture gazes down confidently at the world. In this way the artist alludes obliquely to the phenomena of looking and seeing, to sensory perception as an aesthetic experience, as expounded by the visionary tower warden Lynceus in Goethe¿s Faust Part Two.
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