Die Kraniche des Ibykus
gegen 1832
Medium
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions
ungerahmt: 187 × 215 × 3,5 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
3739
About this artwork
Nach Friedrich Schiller.
Art Historical Context
**Die Kraniche des Ikus** (c. 1832) by Heinrich Schwemminger a monumental oil on canvas painting (187 × 215 cm), now housed in Vienna's Belvedere Collection. large-scale work captures a dramatic moment from Friedrich Schiller's famous 1797 ballad of the same name, drawing on an ancient Greek myth. Schwemminger, a prominent Austrian artist of the Biedermeier era (5–1885), at the Vienna Academy and excelled in literary and historical subjects, blending Romantic storytelling with precise, detailed realism characteristic of his style. The poem recounts how the murder of the poet Ibycus is avenged...