id: 128285 accession number: 1951.277 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.277 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:09.350000 View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso), 1513. Wolfgang Huber (Austrian, 1490–1553). Pen and brown ink; sheet: 13.1 x 21.2 cm (5 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1951.277 title: View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1513 creation date earliest: 1513 creation date latest: 1513 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Austria, 16th century technique: pen and brown ink department: Drawings collection: DR - Austrian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wolfgang Huber (Austrian, 1490–1553) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 13.1 x 21.2 cm (5 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: recto: upper center, in brown ink: 1513; lower left, in brown ink: v. h verso: by artist?, across entire sheet, in black ink: [Ov]iduss Beschribet gar schon / Von einem Cunig Akteon / Wie er aing malß wolt jagen thain / jagt hin und da jm Holtze / fand er ein Göttin Rein vnd stoltze / Diana / die padet mit jeren junkfrauen / die pegünnt er an zu schowen / Daß es sie ser verdross / sy in mit Wasser pegoss / Zw [illegible] Hirschen un wissent / daß jm sin eigen Hünt zeryssen / Daß er sich zum Hirschen verkert / von seinen Hunden zerrissen zu d[illegible] / Erd [sideways]; upper center, in red chalk: [illegible, crossed out] / adltof. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: German Drawings opening date: 1955-11-11T05:00:00 German Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11-December 18, 1955). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries opening date: 1960-05-18T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Old Master Drawings opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964). title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968). title: Prints and Drawings of the Danube School opening date: 1969-10-09T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings of the Danube School. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (organizer) (October 9-November 16, 1969); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (December 11, 1969-January 25, 1970); Saint Louis Art Museum (February 10-March 24, 1970). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). title: The German Tradition opening date: 1993-04-27T04:00:00 The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Arnold Otto Meyer, Hamburg (1825-1903), Lugt 1994 (not stamped) date: ?-1914 footnotes: citations: his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 19-20 March 1914, no. 300 date: 1914 footnotes: citations: art market, 1930 (according to Halm 1930, 4) date: footnotes: citations: Probably Collection Prince Franz Josef II von Liechtenstein (1906-1989), Vienna (according to file; no stamp) date: ?-ca. 1950 footnotes: citations: with Kunsthandlung Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich date: 1950 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This sheet of paper, with drawings on both sides, as well as a poem, shows how artists in the Renaissance rarely wasted paper. digital description: This drawing depicts a castle in Southern Germany in the area around the Danube River known for its wooded and rocky heights and dramatic views. Wolfgang Huber's meandering, pen and ink lines describe the contours of the earth and the lushness of summer foliage in a horizontal layout that focuses on the middle distance with a barely recorded foreground. Huber may have made the drawing during a journey between Feldkirch and Vienna as he traveled along the Danube. In 1513 when this drawing was made, landscape was rarely depicted as a subject in and of itself, but artists in the Danube region such as Huber exhibited a profound sensitivity to nature. A drawing on the reverse of the sheet depicts a cup studded with gems and a poem written in a contemporary hand telling the mythological story of Actaeon's transformation into a stag when he intruded upon the goddess Diana and her nymphs bathing. wall description: Huber's mastery is evident throughout this early drawing, from the meandering, apparently casual lines describing the contours of the earth to the careful, hooked strokes capturing the lushness of summer foliage. Despite the appearance of spontaneity and realism, the artist carefully composed the scene. The subject has not been specifically identified. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Weinberger, Martin. Wolfgang Huber. Leipzig: Im Inselverlag, 1930. page number: no. 18; pp. 56-57, 68, 231 url: Halm, Peter, "Die Landschaftzeichnungen des Wolfgang Huber. Mit 35 Abbildungen," Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst VII (1930): pp. 1-104. page number: no 47; pp. 4, 8, 90-91 url: Horn, Adam, "Eine Wiederentdeckte Alte Ansicht der Burg Harburg im Ries," Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben LVII (1950): pp. 35-37. page number: pp. 35-37 url: Heinzle, Erwin. Wolf Huber, um 1485-1553. Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner, 1953. page number: no. 14; pp. 11, 15, 46 url: Oettinger, Karl. Datum und Signatur bei Wolf Huber und Albrecht Altdorfer; zur Beschriftungskritik der Donauschulzeichnungen. Erlangen: [Universitätsbund Erlangen], 1957. page number: no. 9, pp. 12, 25-26, 69 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 582 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n109 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 112 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n136 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 112 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n136 Talbot, Charles W., and Alan Shestack. Prints and Drawings of the Danube School; An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560. New Haven: Printed by the Carl Purington Rollins Printing-Office of the Yale University Press, 1969. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11, p. 16, pp. 76-77, no. 78, pl. 41 url: Stange, Alfred. Malerei der Donauschule. München: Bruckmann, 1971. page number: p. 96 url: Rose, Patricia. Wolf Huber Studies: Aspects of Renaissance Thought and Practice in Danube School Painting. New York: Garland Pub, 1977. page number: p. 5 n4 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 131 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n151 Winzinger,Franz. Das Gesamtwerk. München: Hirmer Verlag, 1979. page number: 1: no. 22; pp. 7, 8, 82-83, 193, 2: p. VII, pl 22, A7, XIV url: Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. page number: no. 100, pp. 166-168. url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: P. 150-51, 292; Reproduced: P. 151, cat. no. 60 url: Dunbar, Burton L., et al. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. London, England: Harvey Miller, 2012. page number: no. 100, pp. 166-168 url: Wood, Christopher S., and Albrecht Altdorfer. Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. 2014. page number: p. 203 url: Jenkins, Catherine, et al. The Renaissance of Etching.
New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019. page number: Mentioned: p. 47; reproduced: p. 99, fig. 42 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.277/1951.277_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.277/1951.277_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.277/1951.277_full.tif