View of a Castle (recto)
1513
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1513
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
View of a Castle (recto) is a 1513 by Wolfgang Huber, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a castle perched on a wooded hill, drawn in quick, looping pen strokes. Huber made this on the road, probably stopping to sketch what he saw along the Danube. The lines feel loose, almost like he was in a hurry—yet the trees and rocks still look alive. It’s not a finished painting, just a moment caught on paper. If you like how the ink dances across the page, look up *sfumato* next.
This drawing depicts a castle in southern Germany in the area around the Danube River known for its wooded and rocky heights and dramatic views. Wolfgang Huber's meandering, pen and ink lines describe the contours of the earth and the lushness of summer foliage in a horizontal layout that focuses on the middle distance with a barely recorded foreground. Huber may have made the drawing during a journey between Feldkirch and Vienna as he traveled along the Danube. In 1513 when this drawing was made, landscape was rarely depicted as a subject in and of itself, but artists in the Danube region…
This sheet of paper has drawings on both sides as well as a poem, indicating that paper was rarely wasted.
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