Skizzenbuch, 1851

Buchblock mit Einband: 112 x 143 x 12 mm
Buchblock ohne Einband: 106 x 138 x 6 mm

Physical Description: Pencil, watercolours over pencil, pen and brown ink with white lead heightening on differently coloured wove paper, in half leather book covers, boards covered with marbled paper

Inventory Number: SG 2737

Object Number: SG 2737 Z

Acquisition: Acquired in 1942

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

Texts

About the Work

The sketchbook, dated 1851, with differently coloured pages, documents Ludwig Metz’s stay in Rome during his journey to Italy. With pencil and pen (in brown and grey), and mostly on successive recto pages, he drew landscape and architectural motifs; he seems not to have been interested in the paper colour: an evening mood at Civitella was not recorded on darker, blue paper but on the next blank and therefore yellow page. The strokes of the drawings seem to be set quickly and, yet, are still aimed at details. Especially churches and temples as well as the relationship between nature and architecture appealed to him, sometimes resulting in quite pictorially constructed images.

For a full sketchbook description, please see “Research”.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Skizzenbuch

Draughtsman

Ludwig Metz

Period Produced

19th century

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Pencil, watercolours over pencil, pen and brown ink with white lead heightening on differently coloured wove paper, in half leather book covers, boards covered with marbled paper

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

German

Production Reason

Sketchbook

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Signiert, datiert und bezeichnet auf dem vorderern Spiegel (mit Feder in Braun): Rom. 1857. Ludwig Metz; verschiedene Notizen und Bezeichnungen des Künstlers im Buch