ID: 700008169 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008169	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Rocky Outcropping (recto); Rocky Forest with Strollers (verso) (drawing (visual work); Ernst FerdinOehme (German, 1797 - 1855) (German Artist); about 1825; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 2009.27)

Note: The drawing is a study of a rocky outcropping with grasses growing in its crevices, silhouetted against a brilliant blue sky. The artist has drawn it with penetrating clarity and an almost modernist approach to its abstract, crystalline structure. The brilliant blue of the sky with the gray rock mass silhouetted against it create a powerful, geometric formal arrangement.Oehme's teacher in Dresden was Caspar David Friedrich, and the latter's influence is plainly visible in Oehme's spare, elemental treatment of the rock mass. Although he went to Rome in 1822-25, Oehme told artist-friends such as Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld that he was truly inspired by German landscape. Oehme's regard for the sublime, pure and quasi-religious forces of Germanic nature, as seen in the proposed watercolor, clearly show the profound and lasting impact of Friedrich. Oehme likely made the proposed watercolor in 1825, on his return from Rome to Dresden, via a stop in the Swiss and Tyrolean Alps to make watercolors. It is evidently a sketchbook page and shows a lovely scene of a forest on the verso. He possibly finished the rock study with watercolors when back in the studio.

Titles:

Rocky Outcropping (recto); Rocky Forest with Strollers (verso) (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Large Rock Structure in a Landscape (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1825

Creator Display:

Ernst FerdinOehme (German, 1797 - 1855) (German Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand (German landscapist, 1797-1855) [500019549]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.27

Other: Creation: Deutschland [7000084] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Graphite and watercolor (recto); graphite (verso)

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

Dimensions: 18.4 x 29.7 cm (7 1/4 x 11 11/16 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	wilderness [300132449]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), landscapes (environments), cultural landscapes, <cultural landscapes by location or context>) (AAT)

	mountains (landforms) [300008795]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), landscapes (environments), natural landscapes, landforms (terrestrial)) (AAT)

	figures (representations) [300189808]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Rocky Outcropping (recto); Rocky Forest with Strollers (verso)	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Large Rock Structure in a Landscape	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)