6 | Vor der Küste

Towards evening, it becomes quieter on the coast. Hardly a human sound competes with the likewise rather restrained sounds of nature in this group of pictures, except perhaps in Joseph Rebell’s vesper pictures with music-making and dancing staffage figures. Even his busier “Gulf of Naples with Scenes from Folk Life” remains restrained considering the mood of light and color by the sea. If anything, one sees calm gestures. Thus, Karl Schönbrunner’s St. Augustine only asks the boy by the sea to follow him with an open hand.

About half of the paintings compiled here dispense with the depiction of people altogether. Even in “Monte Carlo” by Sergius Pauser, there is no one in the street. Broncia Koller-Pinell has transformed three delicate female creatures into light wind blowing across an “Orange Grove on the French Riviera”.