The Watzmann, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria by Frederic Edwin Church, 1868 palma de mallorca Aesthetic elements: Wide clean margins

Aesthetic elements: Wide clean margins and a nice dark impression

About the artist: Although little biographical detail survives for Gabriele Chiattone

or gallery notes

By the mid-1920s he was teaching at the Bauhaus

The Watzmann, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria by Frederic Edwin Church, 1868 palma de mallorca Aesthetic elements: Wide clean marginsThe Watzmann, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (1868) by Frederic Edwin Church is a tour de force of Romantic landscape painting. A leading light of the Hudson River School, Church transformed on the spot observation into sweeping, meticulously rendered vistas that elevated nature to the realm of the sublime. Here, the towering Watzmann massif dominates the Bavarian horizon, its snow laced peaks caught in warm, late day radiance. The painting embodies 19th