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Wooded River Landscape in the Alps

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Austrian Artist · 1793–1875

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Date: about 1850–1870
Medium: Watercolor, gouache and graphite
Culture: Austrian
Department: Drawings
Institution: Getty Museum

An official artist with ties to the Austrian emperor, Ender specialized in polished, picturesque views of Austria. Commercially successful, his landscapes contributed to shaping the country's self-image in the middle decades of the 1800s. Ender's later work became increasingly personal in subject and experimental in style--as in this representation of an Alpine river surrounding a rocky outcropping. While the central area of the composition is highly controlled and clearly descriptive, its periphery is treated so loosely that it verges on abstraction.

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