Landscape (Untitled) / Herman Herzog
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.151
- Title
- Landscape (Untitled)
- Artist
- Herman Herzog
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- 1831 - 1932
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1869-1932
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Hudson River School
- Inscription
- Inscribed l.l.: H Herzog
- Dimensions
- 61 cm x 78.8 cm (24 in. x 31 in.)
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- This painting depicts a lush green countryside with an expanse of blue sky. It shows a hillside overlooking a small lake. There is a vista of fields and hills that extends beyond the lake to the horizon.
- In the foreground, a woman wearing a long dress and a bonnet and carrying a walking stick and basket, walks toward the viewer along a dirt path. The path runs from a building on the far left toward the bottom of the painting. The vegetation is painted in sharp detail in dark tones of green and brown.
- In the right half of the composition, there is a scene of a distant village and farms viewed through the trees on the edge of the hillside. In contrast to the shadowy wooded area, the view is bathed in bright sunlight. There is a lone bird in flight in the light blue sky that fills the top half of the painting.
- Subject Matter
- In 1849 Herman Herzog entered the Dusseldorf Art Academy and studied with Achenbach and Schirme, two painters who were known for their literal and precise style of landscape painting. This work illustrates his training in the academic tradition of landscape painting. It has a balanced composition with foreground, middleground, background and atmospheric perspective to create the illusion of spatial depth. Tree formations and sunlight direct the viewer's eye back through the painting to the faraway village scene. Herzog's realism is especially evident in the foreground scene where the pathway and foliage are painted in exact detail. Although the actual locale is not identified, this scene is reminiscent of the Hudson River School style of painting with which Herzog is also identified.
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- buildings and the land
- figures
- houses
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- natural landscapes
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by function
- people and occupations
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- trails
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- walkways
- woody plants
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1217 x 949
- File Size
- 148 KB
- Record
- 1987/1.151
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1987-sl-1.151/1987_1.151.jpg
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"Landscape (Untitled); Herman Herzog." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1987-sl-1.151/1987_1.151.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
