1820
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Der Gesprengte und der Bibliotheke Thurm von Heidelberger Schloß (The Exploded Tower and the Library of Heidelberg Castle) is a 1820 ink by Ernst Fries, a Romanticism work, depicting Ruins, held at National Gallery of Art.
This lithograph shows Heidelberg Castle half in ruins with a jagged tower and a tall library next to it. The scene looks dramatic but calm. Ernst Fries used a print method called lithography here. Lithography prints from a smooth stone. Fries drew on the stone with greasy ink. Then he pressed paper onto it to make copies. This was new in the 1800s. See Fries’s other prints by searching for the artist Ernst Fries.
Ernst Fries (22 June 1801, Heidelberg – 11 October 1833, Karlsruhe) was a German painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, printmaker, and lithograph.
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