Bacharach – Neurath – Medenscheid – Lasinsky, Johann Adolf (Simmern 1808 – Dusseldorf 1871). (View of Bacharach.) On the right St. Werner chapel and Stahleck Castle, on the heights Neurath and Medenscheid, in the distance Furstenberg Castle near Rheindiebach. On the street people, on the Rhine boat decoration. Toned pen lithograph. Inscribed: (Recorded from nature and lithographed by J. A. Lasinsky 1828. / Frankfort a/M. C. Jügel.), title as above in German-French parallel text. 22.7 x 29 cm.

In  its  nervous  line  conduct  ahead  of  its  time ,

unmistakably, and promptly lithographed after own sketch, and thus “standing out highly advantageously from the leaves of much smaller size engraved after him by other artists … Lasinsky’s ‘sensibility, keenest power of observation, realistic study of nature, and talent for large wide landscapes’ have been praised” (Schulte). The simultaneous depiction of the Werner Chapel additionally fascinating. For

“ Celebrated by the German romantic movement as embodiment of the elegiac ruin the Werner Chapel became the

most  precious  treasure  of  the  Middle  Rhine

… (and in its) moving antagonism of grace and decay, vulnerability and inertia it is irresistable till today ”

(Dieter Bartetzko in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 8, 2007).
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