DOI issue:
Nr. 156 (February 1910)
DOI article:Glaser, M.: Ferdinand Engelmüller's bohemian landscapes
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19868#0482
Ferdinand Engehnuller
he has portrayed in a series of plein-air pictures besides a hundred towers grey with age, and
giving vistas of the old city from many points of numerous other edifices which remain as the
view. But when mention is made to him nowa- venerable relics of a hoary antiquity. Old houses
days of his popularity in this respect he modestly and many nooks and corners serve as accessories
repudiates any claim to it; he would even seem to give completion to the picture, and for fore-
to be half ashamed about it, and scarcely likes to ground he has the famous Karlsbrucke with its
be reminded of the days when to earn a scanty statues, forming the connecting link between the
pittance, he painted large pictures which a wide- " Old Town" and the " Kleinseite " across the
awake publisher has utilised for the well-known Moldau, which hereabouts offers a variety of
postcards of "picturesque Prague." scenery with its verdant isles. Engelmiiller's
Prague is Engelmiiller's native city, and his love portrayal of Prague has always been truthful
for the interesting old town, whose manifold and attractive, whether the occasion has been a
beauties never escape his observant eye, is elo- sunny day in spring-time, a warm moonlight night
quently expressed in all his pictures of the city, in summer, or one of those wintry days when the
He has but to look from the window of his studio town wears a raiment of snow and the river is one
to find inspiration for subjects innumerable. broad expanse of ice.
Stepping out on to an open balustrade he can In his later career Engelmiiller has not con-
take in at a glance the many picturesque features cerned himself with views of Prague, but has
of his Vatersiadt—the Hofburg on yonder hill selected his themes solely from the realm of land-
covered with trees, the Cathedral of St. Vitus, scape proper. As a rule these landscapes are
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he has portrayed in a series of plein-air pictures besides a hundred towers grey with age, and
giving vistas of the old city from many points of numerous other edifices which remain as the
view. But when mention is made to him nowa- venerable relics of a hoary antiquity. Old houses
days of his popularity in this respect he modestly and many nooks and corners serve as accessories
repudiates any claim to it; he would even seem to give completion to the picture, and for fore-
to be half ashamed about it, and scarcely likes to ground he has the famous Karlsbrucke with its
be reminded of the days when to earn a scanty statues, forming the connecting link between the
pittance, he painted large pictures which a wide- " Old Town" and the " Kleinseite " across the
awake publisher has utilised for the well-known Moldau, which hereabouts offers a variety of
postcards of "picturesque Prague." scenery with its verdant isles. Engelmiiller's
Prague is Engelmiiller's native city, and his love portrayal of Prague has always been truthful
for the interesting old town, whose manifold and attractive, whether the occasion has been a
beauties never escape his observant eye, is elo- sunny day in spring-time, a warm moonlight night
quently expressed in all his pictures of the city, in summer, or one of those wintry days when the
He has but to look from the window of his studio town wears a raiment of snow and the river is one
to find inspiration for subjects innumerable. broad expanse of ice.
Stepping out on to an open balustrade he can In his later career Engelmiiller has not con-
take in at a glance the many picturesque features cerned himself with views of Prague, but has
of his Vatersiadt—the Hofburg on yonder hill selected his themes solely from the realm of land-
covered with trees, the Cathedral of St. Vitus, scape proper. As a rule these landscapes are
!IN THE MEADOWS" (PASTEL) BY FERDINAND ENGELMULLER
292