ID: 700008183 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008183	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Wooded River Landscape in the Alps (drawing (visual work); Thomas Ender (Austrian, 1793 - 1875) ; about 1850 - 1870; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 2009.60)

Note: Thomas Ender was among the most talented and historically significant watercolor draftsmen of the nineteenth-century Germanic tradition. Ender studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, where he began his career-long interest in recording landscape, particularly in the medium of watercolor. In 1817 he joined the Austrian scientific mission on a visit to Brazil, where he produced hundreds of watercolors and drawings of local flora and fauna. Upon his return to Europe the following year, Ender travelled to Italy before returning to permanently to Vienna. He served as a professor of landscape painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna from 1836 until 1851. The drawing demonstrates with astonishing brilliance the breadth of Ender's technical capabilities in the watercolor medium. At once clear and precise in the description of the rocks and flowing river water at the composition's center, the proposed drawing also exhibits Ender's inclination toward abstraction, a tendency that developed in the later phases of his career. Moving from central focal point to the perimeter of the composition, Ender's application of watercolor becomes more loose and brushy. This combination of fine, controlled, and clearly descriptive passages with those more suggestive, broad, and free in character comport perfectly with the subject described-a bend in the river around an outcropping of rock encircled by rocks and firs with the shadow of the mountain range cast in the distance.

Titles:

Wooded River Landscape in the Alps (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Wooded River Landscape in the Mountains (C,U,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: about 1850 - 1870

Creator Display:

Thomas Ender (Austrian, 1793 - 1875) [preferred,JPGM]

watercolorist Ender, Thomas (Austrian painter, 1793-1875, active in Brazil) [500001536]

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: 2009.60

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

Display Materials: Watercolor, gouache and 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)

	gouache (paint) [300070114]
	.......(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: 31 x 47.8 cm (12 3/16 x 18 13/16 in.)

Cultures:

Austrian (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	landscape (representation) [300015636]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	river [300008707]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), landscapes (environments), natural landscapes, bodies of water (natural), bodies of freshwater, <bodies of freshwater by biome>, riverine bodies of water) (AAT)

	forests (cultural landscapes) [300008863]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), landscapes (environments), cultural landscapes, <cultural landscapes by location or context>, wilderness) (AAT)

	mountains (landforms) [300008795]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), landscapes (environments), natural landscapes, landforms (terrestrial)) (AAT)

Inscriptions: '5', recto, lower right corner

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Wooded River Landscape in the Alps	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Wooded River Landscape in the Mountains	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

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

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