Property from the Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Johan Christian Dahl
The Frauenkirche, Dresden
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Johan Christian Dahl
Bergen 1788–1857 Dresden
The Frauenkirche, Dresden
oil on paper laid on a card mount
unframed: 6.8 x 9.5 cm.; 2⅝ x 3¾ in.
framed: 15 x 18 cm.; 5⅞ x 7⅛ in.
Gifted by the artist to Wilhelmine von der Decken (1783–1858), Dresden, in 1840;
Private collection, Oslo.
M.L. Bang, Johann Christian Dahl, 1788–1857: Life and Work, Oslo 1987, vol. II, p. 282, no. 928, reproduced vol. III, pl. 394.
Marie Lødrup Bang dates this haunting view of Dresden’s skyline to 1840. Although by then Dahl was making regular painting trips to his native Norway, Dresden remained his home from the time he first moved to the city in 1818. The moonlit scene, the dome of the Frauenkirche silhouetted against a moonlit sky, is immediately reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich, with whom Dahl enjoyed a close friendship.
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