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The image shows a landscape with trees standing on a snow-covered terrain. In the background, there is a line of trees against the sky with birds flying. The foreground features tree trunks and bushes with fine, detailed lines and cross-hatching for texture. The color palette is black and white, emphasizing contrast. Decorative patterns frame the image.
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The image shows a landscape with trees standing on a snow-covered terrain. In the background, there is a line of trees against the sky with birds flying. The foreground features tree trunks and bushes with fine, detailed lines and cross-hatching for texture. The color palette is black and white, emphasizing contrast. Decorative patterns frame the image.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Winter Landscape Within a Jugendstil Border

Hermann Hirzel

Date
1902
Medium
pen and black ink, with corrective marks in white, on two joined sheets of card
Dimensions
sheet: 32 x 36.4 cm (12 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.) image: 24.7 x 30.1 cm (9 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2011.37.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Landscape
  • Winter
Provenance

Walter Unus [Heinrich] [1872-1939], Berlin. Galerie Bassenge, Berlin. Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London; purchased in 2011 by NGA.

Inscription

by artist, lower right in black ink: Hirzel; by artist, lower right of decorative border in blak ink: Hzl.; by later hand (?), verso in blue chalk ????/ für Tag; by later hand, verso lower center in graphite: 10739 / Hirzel

Marks

stamp, blue, on verso: 1902

NGA object ID 154612. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.