ID: 700008171 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008171	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Ruin of the Tiefburg at Handschuhsheim (drawing (visual work); Carl Philipp Fohr (German, 1795 - 1818) (German Artist); 1813/1814; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 2009.29)

Note: The drawing shows a view of the Tiefburg in the town of Handschuchsheim, near Heidelberg. The Tiefburg fortress was badly damaged during the Thirty Years' war, and in January of 1689, during the early years of the Nine Years' war, it was destroyed. What Fohr depicted, therefore, were the ruins of the fortress he encountered at Handschuchsheim during a summer-long tour in 1813 through the Neckar region of Germany. Fohr was recognized in his youth as a talented draftsman, and it was on this aspect of his art that he primarily focused early in his career, first in his hometown of Heidelberg and later in Darmstadt. Like many of his generation, Fohr traveled to Rome, where he met many of the Nazarenes. While bathing in the Tiber in 1818, less than two years after his arrival in the eternal city, Fohr drowned, leaving behind watercolors and other drawings that inspired fellow German artists like Franz Horny and Ludwig Richter. The sheet belongs to Fohr's so-called Skizzenbuch der Neckargegend (Neckar Sketchbook), which he completed in the summer of 1813 and winter of 1814. Together with a subsequently completed sketchbook, the so-called Badischen Skizzenbuch (Baden Sketchbook), the drawings of the Neckar Album are thought to represent the pinnacle of Fohr's career as a landscapist. The proposed drawing is the last in a series of three that Fohr completed of the Tiefburg. The first two, both now in the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, show more preliminary studies of the site. Neither of these earlier drawings includes figures, which lend the proposed sheet an anecdotal charm. The pencil marks, now almost entirely covered with watercolor, were likely sketched in situ, and the precise application of watercolor was probably carried out later on, in Heidelberg. Fohr presented his completed album of sketches of the Neckar region to the hereditary Grand-Duchess Wilhelmina, who then invited him for six weeks to her summer residence in Baden-Baden, the subject of Fohr's second major landscape project, the Baden Sketchbook.

Titles:

Ruin of the Tiefburg at Handschuhsheim (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Ruin of the Castle Handschuchsheim near Heildelberg (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: 1813/1814

Creator Display:

Carl Philipp Fohr (German, 1795 - 1818) (German Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman Fohr, Carl Philipp (German painter and draftsman, 1795-1818) [500025878]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.29

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

Display Materials: Watercolor over graphite

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

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

Dimensions: 19.7 x 27.5 cm (7 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	ruins [300008057]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by condition>) (AAT)

	Tiefburg [700002939]
	.....(Tiefburg [700002939], Built Works by class: fortifications, transportation, bridges, barriers, military, and engineering works [700009566], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)

	figures (representations) [300189808]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	dog (species) [300250130]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Canidae (family), Canis (genus)) (AAT)

Inscriptions: At bottom: Die Ruine zu Hanschuchsheim; Upper right: 25

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Ruin of the Tiefburg at Handschuhsheim	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ruin of the Castle Handschuchsheim near Heildelberg	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

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

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