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Blick vom Salzburger Mönchsberg auf die Festung Hohensalzburg

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View from Mönchsberg Hill of the Hohensalzburg Fortress
Datec. 1830

Artist Friedrich Loos (1797 Graz – 1890 Kiel)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on cardboard
Dimensions
30 x 40,5 cm
Signatureunlabelled
Inventory number3181
Location Currently not on display
Loos did not choose the city itself or its most famous landmark, the Hohensalzburg Fortress, as his subject, but instead the Mönchsberg Hill, or more precisely its steeply sloping rock faces. Like a surgical incision, we see the interior of the mountain, its composition and geology, exposed. The silhouette of Salzburg in the distance serves merely to locate the subject. With his close-up view of the rock formations, Loos demonstrated his skills as an artist. Yet he was always on the lookout for new subjects that would appeal to buyers. He found these on his walks in Austria, and later on in Rome and Kiel. This left him with a large stock of drawings, which, often years later, he used as resources for his paintings.

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