ID: 700008170 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008170	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

View of Koblenz with the Rhine and Fortress Ehrenbreitstein (recto); View of the Heidelberg Castle (verso) (drawing (visual work); Johann Adam Klein (German, 1792 - 1875) (German Artist); 1815; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2009.28)

Note: The recto of the drawing shows a distant view of Koblenz on one side of the Rhine and the Fortress Eihrenbreitstein on the other. The verso of the same sheet, likely taken from a sketchbook, depicts Heidelberg castle seen from a relatively short distance. Both sides of this sheet demonstrate the artist's careful and at times blended application of graphite. The recto provides insight into how Klein integrated his preliminary graphite sketch with the subsequently applied brown ink, used to strengthen distinctive features of the landscape and the architecture it contains. While the recto of the sheet reveals Klein's use of the reserve-the upper and lower registers are almost totally absent of line-the verso demonstrates the artist's contrary impulse to fill the sheet from lower to upper margin with details from the architecture he observed. Consistent with the Romantic and historicizing approach to the Germanic past operative at that time, Klein recorded accretions of architectural detail, from Romanesque to High Gothic to Renaissance as they unfold in the ruins of this famous and venerated castle. In short, the two sides of this drawing, both of which can be seen in the same orientation if the sheet were to be exhibited double-sided, reveal Klein's consonant yet varied approach to landscape-austere, restrained, ethereal in one instance and elaborate, thorough, and immediate in another. Klein trained in his youth in Nuremberg at the Städtische Zeichenschule under Gustav Philipp Zwinger. In 1805 he entered the studio of Ambrosius Gabler, who instructed him in printmaking techniques, which he gradually adopted for the creation of lithographs. In 1811, Klein settled in Vienna and found a home at the Akademie der bildenden Künste. In 1815, he returned to Germany for sketching tours in the Rhine and Main valleys; it was in fact during one of these trips that he created the proposed sheet. Klein continued to alternate between Vienna and different cities in Germany until he settled in Munich at the end of the 1830s and remained there until his death in 1875. He was prolific as a draftsman, continuing to produce drawings into his old age.

Titles:

View of Koblenz with the Rhine and Fortress Ehrenbreitstein (recto); View of the Heidelberg Castle (verso) (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

View of Heidelberg Castle (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1815

Creator Display:

Johann Adam Klein (German, 1792 - 1875) (German Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Klein, Johann Adam (German painter and engraver, 1792-1875) [500025780]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.28

Other: Creation: Deutschland [7000084] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Pen and ink over graphite (recto); Graphite (verso)

	pens (drawing and writing implements) [300022452]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

Dimensions: 22.8 x 32.7 cm (9 x 12 7/8 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	sailboats [300120023]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name), vehicles (transportation), watercraft, <watercraft by specific type>, <watercraft by method of propulsion>, sailing vessels, <sailing vessels by size>) (AAT)

	Heidelberger Schloss [700002938]
	.....(Heidelberger Schloss [700002938], Built Works by class: fortifications, transportation, bridges, barriers, military, and engineering works [700009566], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)

	Koblenz [7004448]
	.....(Rhineland Palatinate (state), Germany (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	Rhein [7012611]
	.....(Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	Festung Ehrenbreitstein [700002937]
	.....(Festung Ehrenbreitstein [700002937], Built Works by class: fortifications, transportation, bridges, barriers, military, and engineering works [700009566], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)

	village [300008372]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), inhabited places, <settlements by form>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Inscribed and dated, upper right: Ansicht von Coblenz, Thal der ruinierten Festung Ehrenbreitstein. Gez. Aus dem Garten des Hl. Canonicus von Unbescheid in Pfaffendorf. Den 8. August 1815 Verso: Signed, dated, and inscribed, upper left: Ein Theil des Heidelberger Schlosses. Gez. Den 24. August 1815. J.A. Klein

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
View of Koblenz with the Rhine and Fortress Ehrenbreitstein (recto); View of the Heidelberg Castle (verso)	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
View of Heidelberg Castle	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)