ID: 700008189 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008189	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Austrian Peasants with a Horse and Cart, with a View of Vienna in the Distance (drawing (visual work); Johann Adam Klein (German, 1792 - 1875) (German Artist); 1816 - 1818; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 2009.66)

Note: The drawing combines the principal artistic interests of Johann Adam Klein: landscapes, particularly city views, and descriptions of horses either with Hussars or working peasants. Klein was so adept in his description of horses that his works became the principal collecting interest of Conrad Jahn, a contemporary of Klein's whose collection featured representations of animals and landscapes. Jahn, an early owner of the proposed drawing, amassed a large group of watercolors by Klein and even published a catalogue of these works during the artist's lifetime. With its wonderfully fresh watercolors, the proposed drawing reveals Klein's layered method of developing a composition. He probably made it during a stay in Austria in 1816-18. The spontaneous and energetic pencil-drawn lines, especially evident in the pentimenti around the feet of the conversing peasants help establish the placement of the central figures. The watercolors were then applied with varying degrees of density to provide bursts of local color-to wit, the red skirt of the female peasant at right-and to create a harmonious ground against which the horse and carriage could be set. With broad and rather diluted swaths of brown and blue, Klein defined the foreground and background, at the same time contrasting in technical terms the placid landscape elements from the more sharply described peasants, active in discussion as the cityscape in the distance and the earth below them remain static and cool. 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. 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:

Austrian Peasants with a Horse and Cart, with a View of Vienna in the Distance (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Austrian Peasants and a Horse and Cart, with Vienna in the background (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: 1816 - 1818

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

Repository Numbers: 2009.66

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: 13.5 x 20.1 cm (5 5/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

landscapes

animals

Specific Subjects:

	peasants [300230852]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>, <people in agriculture>, farmers (people in agriculture)) (AAT)

	horse (species) [300250148]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Perissodactyla (order), Equidae (family), Equus (genus)) (AAT)

	cart [300212695]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name), vehicles (transportation), land vehicles, <land vehicles by form>, freewheeled vehicles, <freewheeled vehicles by form or function>, <service and utility vehicles>) (AAT)

	Wien [7003321]
	.....(Vienna state (state), Austria (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Austrian Peasants with a Horse and Cart, with a View of Vienna in the Distance	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Austrian Peasants and a Horse and Cart, with Vienna in the background	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

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

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