4/internal/media/dispatcher/91794/fullEarly Spring in the Vienna Woods1861[Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller]Ferdinand Georg WaldmüllerOil on woodSnow is still on the ground, but violets and primroses are already in flower. Oversized and tantalizingly close, Waldmüller depicts them in the foreground. Some have been picked by the children. One girl bashfully offers her bunch to a boy. But this painting’s main motif is neither flowers nor children, but the landscape, captured by Waldmüller using only a few hues of blue, green, and brown—colors echoed in the children’s clothes. Light, which falls evenly on the figures and the landscape from the left, does not introduce accents but evokes atmosphere, and in this approach Waldmüller was well ahead of his times. His contemporaries responded with incomprehension or even harsh criticism.Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/513/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/6774/fullSelf-Portrait at the Easel1848[Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller]Ferdinand Georg WaldmüllerOil on canvasPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/5799/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/26343/fullChristmas Morning1844[Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller]Ferdinand Georg WaldmüllerOil on woodPaintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/7929/rdf/internal/media/dispatcher/6823/fullLower Austrian Country Wedding1843[Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller]Ferdinand Georg WaldmüllerOil on woodA multitude of people inhabits Waldmüller’s Lower Austrian Country Wedding. At the center are the bride and groom, while to their left a budding couple seem to be enjoying a flirtation. On the podium behind them, the band is already playing for the dancers. On the right is Höldrich Mill in Hinterbrühl near Mödling, a picturesque region south of Vienna. Waldmüller has combined this with the church from Perchtoldsdorf to form a stage-like backdrop for the events. And the figures, too, have been grouped as if on a stage, even down to the two groups of children on the “apron.” Waldmüller is therefore not depicting a real wedding but one that could have happened, with all its little episodes and sub-plots. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/126/rdf