drawing, mixed-media, paper
drawing
mixed-media
water colours
paper
mixed media
modernism
watercolor
Copyright: Public Domain
This sketchbook was made by Ludwig Metz, who was born in 1822. I want to hold it in my hands. The cover is a marbled brown, swirly and organic; a lovely reminder that the natural world seeps into everything we do. It makes me imagine what Ludwig might have been thinking as he was creating. Did he look at this cover and see trees, rivers, or clouds? Did this surface inspire him? I love to think so. It’s a testament to the artist’s curiosity, a space for both planning and spontaneous expression. It’s also a reminder that artists are always in conversation with one another. We have always sought inspiration from the world around us and the work of those who came before. What do you think Ludwig put inside?
Comments
Only the first seven of the detailed drawings in this sketchbook are dated April 1838 and have added locations, the other drawings, also those of the Eschenheimer Tor in Frankfurt, are unidentified. It is possible that Ludwig Metz took this book with him first on trips through Germany. The medieval buildings (half-timbered houses, castle ruins, gate towers and more), sailing ships and boats as well as the studies of gnarled tree trunks, their leafy or bare branches, could also have been created after graphic models, which the only 16-year-old Metz studied carefully. From his later sketches, which he partly sketched quickly without support, these extremely precise and partly almost pictorially composed drawings are, in any case, a long way off.A few pages are enclosed in this sketchbook, probably from another sketchbook, with depictions of the Heidelberg Castle, the Johanniskirche in Wernigerode and the Porta San Lorenzo.For a full sketchbook description, please see “Research”.
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