id:			320642
accession number:	2018.304
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.304
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:21.782000

The Artists on Their Journey, 1819. Johann Adam Klein (German, 1792–1875). Etching on wove paper; plate: 24.5 x 30.3 cm (9 5/8 x 11 15/16 in.); sheet: 29.3 x 34 cm (11 9/16 x 13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Margaret and Peter Dobbins in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Print Club of Cleveland 2018.304

title:				The Artists on Their Journey
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creation date:			1819
creation date earliest:		1819
creation date latest:		1819
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creditline:			Gift of Margaret and Peter Dobbins in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Print Club of Cleveland
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culture:	Germany, 19th century
technique:	etching on wove paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Johann Adam Klein (German, 1792–1875)  - artist

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measurements: Plate: 24.5 x 30.3 cm (9 5/8 x 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 29.3 x 34 cm (11 9/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	In plate: “gezeichnet auf einer malersohen Reise von Salzburg nach 
Berchtesgaden im taguft 1818”
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	inscription:	below left of image; “J.A. Klein fec 
München 1819”
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	inscription:	below right of image; “Meinen Reisegefährten gewidmet” 
below image.
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	inscription:	Collector’s Mark, verso: Lugt 2049c, Philadelphia Print Club Permanent 
Collection
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	inscription:	Inscription, graphite, recto: “(illeg) 234.II/Portraits of artists Fr. Reinhold 
H. Reinhold Christian Erhard F. Welker”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Philadelphia Print Club Permanent Collection, Philadelphia, PA
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	Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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	C.G. Boerner, New York, NY
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 3, 2018
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fun fact:
The artists portrayed in this print were friends who walked through the Bavarian Alps together in 1818 in order to sketch the alpine landscapes they encountered.

digital description:
This image was created to capture the memory of a walking tour by the artist and four friends through the Salzburg-Berchtesgaden region of the Alps in August, 1818. Klein depicted his friends—all artists—with backpacks, easels, and satchels for carrying their artist’s materials. Artists working in the Romantic era placed importance on travel as a path to self-knowledge and creative inspiration.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Jahn, Carl. <em>Das Werk von Johann Adam Klein, Maler und Kupferätzer zu München, Mitglied der kgl. Akademic der Künste zu Berlin. </em>Munich: Verlag der Montmorrilon’schen Kunsthandlung, 1863
	page number: 	no. 234 ii/ii
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	Zimmerman, Antje, and Ursula Peters. <em>Deutsche Graphik des Klassizismus und der Romantik: Aus dem bestand der Graphischen Sammlung des Von der Heydt-Museums Wuppertal. </em>Edited by Sabine Fehlemann. Wuppertal:Von der Heydt-Museum, 1989,
	page number: 	no. 83
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	Seeliger, Stephan, and Norbert Suhr.<em> Unter Glas un Rahmen: Druckgraphik der Romantik aus den Beständen des Landesmuseums Mainz und aus Privatbesitz. </em>Exh. Cat., Landesmuseum Mainz, 1993
	page number: 	no. 17
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	Griffiths, Antony, and Frances Carey. German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1994.
	page number: 	no. 140
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	Philadelphia Museum of Art, John W. Ittmann, Cordula Grewe, Warren Breckman, Mitchell Benjamin Frank, Catriona MacLeod, and F. Carlo Schmid. The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770-1850. 2017.
	page number: 	p. 127-129, fig. 95, no. 116
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IMAGES

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