A View across the Inn Valley to the Alps and Neubeuern

A View across the Inn Valley to the Alps and Neubeuern by Johann Georg von Dillis

Medium

pen and gray and brown ink with watercolor over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24.1 x 36.1 cm (9 1/2 x 14 3/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin

Accession Number

2007.111.67

Art Historical Context

**A View across the Inn Valley the Alps and Neubeern** (c. 1790) by Johann Georg von D captures the majestic drama of the Bavarian countryside. This delicate drawing depicts a sweeping panorama from the Inn Valley—straddling modern-day Austria and Germany—gazing toward the towering Alps and the village of Neubeuern. around 1790, it reflects the late 18th-century fascination with the sublime power of nature, a theme central to emerging Romantic sensibilities in German art. Dillis, Munich-based painter and influential director of the Alte Pinakothek, was renowned for his precise yet atmospheric...

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