Das Schweizerland. Eine Sommerfahrt durch Gebirg und Thal. In Schilderung von Woldemar Kaden.

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Das Schweizerland. Eine Sommerfahrt durch Gebirg und Thal. In Schilderung von Woldemar Kaden.

This 421-page book describes a summer trip through the mountains and valleys of Switzerland. With a total of 90 views and pictures of towns and landscapes in Switzerland, listed in the index. In addition, numerous text illustrations (approx. 32) with index. The descriptions are by Woldemar Kaden. The German folklorist, theologian and author of travel literature Woldemar Kaden (1838 -1907) was head of the German school in Naples in the last third of the 19th century and professor of German at the local lyceum and grammar school. He published his impressions of his travels through Italy and Switzerland in, among others: Wandertage in Italien (1874), Skizzen und Kulturbilder aus Italien (1889), Die Gotthardbahn und ihr Gebiet (1889) or Durch's Schweizerland (1895). The volumes are generously illustrated with engravings that can be regarded as historical documents. Das Schweizerland also belongs in this category. One of many different illustrators is Gustav Bauernfeind. Gustav Bauernfeind (1848-1904) was a well-known painter who studied at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart. Enthralled by the magic of the Orient, he finally settled with his family in Jerusalem in 1896 after several trips to the Orient. Despite a plague epidemic and the prevailing xenophobia, he had undertaken to paint a district of Jaffa in 1887 and achieved fame with this picture. Bauernfeind cultivated both a very precise and a very free style. Architectural depictions and cityscapes are highly realistic. His romantic landscape paintings, on the other hand, are freely designed. In the illustrations for Das Schweizerland, he captures episodes of everyday life in Zurich in the 19th century with great skill. With their romantic perspective, the pictures lend the work a special charm. His Zurich city views (e.g. Partie aus Zürich and Rathausquai in Zurich), which are among his major works, deserve special mention here. Woodcuts by A. Closs, A. Braith, Alexander Calme Arthur Calme, L. Dill, and many others. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart.

ca. 1875

Artist

Gustav Adolf