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Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, the elderc. 1799
- Attribution
- Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, the elder German, 1759-1835
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 50.7 × 42.6 cm (20 × 16 13/16 in.); Plate: 55.8 × 45.5 cm (22 × 17 15/16 in.); Sheet: 62.2 × 51.9 cm (24 1/2 × 20 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Everett D. Graff Fund
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Carl Wilhelm Kolbe was a late bloomer, taking art classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin in his 30s. Unusually, this self-taught etcher did not produce any paintings. Instead he focused on his many idiosyncratic prints of lushly detailed landscapes with mythological overtones. This large sheet includes his signature majestic oak trees and patches of aggressively overgrown foliage, a herd of cows, and a pair of nude men who may come from a different era than the travelers in the background. Kolbe became a member of the Berlin Academy in 1795, and published several print portfolios brimming with idyllic imagery.
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