Dorf im Gebirge
um 1910
Medium
Öl auf Holz
Dimensions
38 × 22,7 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
SLM 731
Art Historical Context
**Dorf im Gebirge** (*Village in the Mountains*), painted by Serafin Maurer around 1910, the serene beauty of an alpine settlement nestled amid rugged peaks. This intimate oil on wood panel, measuring just 38 × 22.7 cm, invites viewers into a tranquil mountain idyll, evoking the charm of rural life in the Austrian or Bavarian highlands. Housed in Vienna's prestigious Belvedere Collection, it early 20th-century landscape painting, a genre that romanticized nature during a period of rapid industrialization and pre-World War I change. Maurer's choice of oil on wood—a traditional medium favored f...