Der Palügletscher
um 1855
Medium
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions
63 x 52,5 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
4716
Art Historical Context
### Der Palügletscher by Hansch Nestled in the Belvedere Collection in Vienna, *Der Palügletscher* (ca. 1855) by Anton Hansch captures the-inspiring drama of the Palü Glacier in the AustrianItalian Alps. This oil on canvas painting, measuring 63 x 52.5 cm, showcases the artist's masterful depiction of towering ice formations, rugged peaks, and misty valleys—a quintessential 19th-century Alpine vista. Hansch, an Austrian landscape painter active in the mid-1800s, specialized in Tyrolean scenes, blending Romantic reverence for nature's sublime power with precise observation. Painted during the...