The Spirit of
Schubert
23-31 March 2012
A Viennese Scrapbook, accompanying
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Spring may be here…
…but it’s still winter at the National Gallery. This image by Schubert’s contemporary Caspar David Friedrich is the perfect distillation of Winterreise. A man has collapsed in the snow and there’s a strange building, a mirage perhaps, in the distance. Although rooted in reality, the painting is eerie, almost surreal. ‘Winter Landscape’ is on permanent display at the National Gallery.
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Countess Caroline Esterházy looks down on Schubert from her portrait, depicted in Moritz von Schwind’s drawing of a Schubertiade.
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Schubert at the Piano, from ‘The Fall of Man: Schubertian Parlour Game in Atzenbrugg’ by Leopold Kupelwieser
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Egon Schiele’s ‘Death and the Maiden’, painted by the Austrian artist nearly a century after Schubert’s string quartet of the same name.
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Illustration for Goethe’s Der Erlkönig by Schubert’s friend Moritz von Schwind
(Source: fletchingarrows)
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In the Forest (Boy with a Bugle), painted by Schubert’s great friend Moritz von Schwind
(Source: eachdayaflower)
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