Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker

Heinrike Dannecker, the wife of the Stuttgart court sculptor Dannecker, is seated parallel to the picture plane with an expansive landscape in the background. The broad sweep of the sitter’s shape sets her apart from the infinitely vast, pale-blue cosmos. She turns towards the viewer in a wholly natural manner, and with her head raised, it is as though she welcomes this interruption in her thoughtful contemplation of nature and is inviting the intruder to share her pleasure. The flowers in her hand establish a link with nature. Yet this does not conceal the programmatic reference to contemporary events, with a clear allusion to the French tricolor in the colors of her clothes. Thus transient gesture, contemporary history, and the timelessness of the cosmos and nature come together and complement each other.
建立者: Gottlieb Schick
建立日期: 1802
實際尺寸: w100.0 x h119.0 cm
類型: Painting
Technique and material: Oil on canvas
Inv.-No.: A II 840
ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-815114
External link:
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Copyrights:
Text: © Prestel Verlag / Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin、
Photo: © b p k - Photo Agency / Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Andres Kilger
Collection: Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin