Material, technology: oil, wood Size: 21 x 26.2 cm Description: These landscapes are among the painter’s youthful works, closely tied to the late 18th century traditions of Austrian landscape painting by Swoboda’s master J. Dallinger von Dalling, Johann Christian Brand, Martin von Molitor. Amidst the romantic scenery of rich vegetation, there are often tiny staffage figures in the foreground: solitary recluses, shepherds, wanderers. With its elegiac, pensive mood the overall impression is to suggest the monumentalness of nature and the smallness of man in it. | |