Die Luft
undatiert
Medium
Öl auf Kupfer
Dimensions
54 x 77 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
4071
Art Historical Context
**Die Luft** by Johann Jakob Hartmann is a captivating allegorical painting housed in the Belvedere Collection in Vienna. Rendered in oil on copper—a medium favored in the Baroque era for its smooth, reflective surface that allowed for exquisite detail and luminous effects—this undated work measures 54 x 77 cm. Hartmann, a Swiss painter active around 16801730, was renowned for his still lifes and symbolic compositions, drawing from Dutch influences while working in Switzerland and southern Germany. The title *Die Luft* ("The Air") suggests a personification of one of the classical four elemen...