id:			118982
accession number:	1940.1173
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1173
updated:		2022-01-04 15:19:51.069000

Gothic Church among Oaks, 1810. Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German, 1781-1841). Lithograph with tint stone; sheet: 47.8 x 34.1 cm (18 13/16 x 13 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1940.1173

title:				Gothic Church among Oaks
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creation date:			1810
creation date earliest:		1810
creation date latest:		1810
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
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culture:	Germany, 19th century
technique:	lithograph with tint stone
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Winkler 763.8

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CREATORS

* Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German, 1781-1841)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 47.8 x 34.1 cm (18 13/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925
	opening date:   1984-06-12T04:00:00
	<i>Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984).

	title:		Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century
	opening date:   2004-08-15T00:00:00
	<i>Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/15/04-11/14/04. "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century".  No exhibition catalogue.

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PROVENANCE

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Schinkel was the principle German architect of the first half of the 19th century. Responsible for almost every public building in Berlin, his neoclassical buildings for the city, based on the rational order and classic proportions of antiquity, came to define the power and stability of the Prussian capital. Schinkel also had a career as a painter and printmaker in which he developed his ideas of architectural splendor in landscapes that juxtaposed nature with buildings. The theme of the visionary Gothic cathedral pervades his work. <em>Gothic Church among Oaks</em> combines the principal Romantic tenets of Christianity, nature, patriotism, and medievalism into one image. Here, as in Quaglio’s <em>Outer Staircase of a Gothic Ruin</em>, a small child is contrasted with the enormity of the oak and the Gothic ruin. The continuity of life in the midst of death is signified by the sunflower among gravestones.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948</em>. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Published as: Liebliche Wehmut.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 62; Reproduced: Plate III
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n81

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