Spring Song, Frühlingslieddetails

Spring Song, Frühlingslied

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A young man, rather scantily clad in an animal skin draped over one shoulder and over his crotch, plays the flute to a young woman lying on animal skins or fabric on the grass and gazing up at the boy. Behind the youth, a tree is in flower.

This engraving by F. Feldweg is based on a painting by the German artist Harry Jochmus (1855 – 1915). There appear to be several versions of the oil painting, with the boy being naked or partly clothed, and with water in the background or not, and the grazing animals in the distant in different positions.

Small print beneath the engraving says, Mit genehmigung der photographischen gesellschaft in Berlin, which is, With permission of the Photographic Society in Berlin, suggesting that the engraving was made from a photograph of the original artowrk.

In digitising the piece, i have assumed that the colours have faded somewhat and tried to correct for it; the sea in the background was a rather lurid green, as was the sky, which seemed other than intended. It is possible the foreground should be browner or redder, but i cannot be certain. The page was quite yellowed.

people, men, women, art, nudity, bare feet, paintings, romance, musical instruments, music, bucolic, countryside, coast

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