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CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH GILLE
(1805 Ballenstadt – 1899 Dresden)

In the »Großer Garten« - Dresden (Great Garden, Dresden)

Water colour over brush painting, underdrawings of the figures in black chalk, 254 x 211 mm. Laminated onto a fragment of a pencil drawing featuring grotesque motifs (which can be dated to the middle of the 19th century).

Condition: small flaw in the lower left-hand corner

This water colour was produced two years after Gille embarked on his studies at the Dresden Academy of Arts, the same year the artist was accepted as a studio apprentice with landscape painter Johan Christian Dahl (1788 - 1857). He defined himself as a landscape painter from this point onwards, taking the Saxon landscape as his creative theme. However, he did not enter a landscape in oil in the Dresden Academy of Arts exhibition until 1829.
The finely-detailed water colour is an interesting forerunner of his later artistic oeuvre. It achieves maximum atmospheric density in the draft-like oil sketches, which seem to arise directly from nature itself.

I would like to pass on my thanks to Prof. Helmut Börsch-Supan (Berlin) for attributing the water colour to Gille. (Verbal notification in February 2008)

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