New entry for the collection of the 19th century

HAMBURG KUNSTHALLE RECEIVES CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICHS »RUINE OYBIN« AS A PERMANENT PURCHASE

As shown by a drawing »Klosterruine auf dem Oybin«, which has been kept in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Hamburger Kunsthalle since 1906, the place Oybin Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) seems to have been particularly captivated. On the way to the Giant Mountains, Friedrich and his painter friend Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785-1847) on 4 July 1810 had climbed the mountain located in Oberlausitz, after the village of the same name. Already on this, in front of the motive created study (monastery ruin on the Oybin, 1810), the object reveals its picture-quality. A painting created around 1812, which until now had been privately owned and largely unknown, has enriched the collection of the 19th century as a permanent loan.

With this spectacular, exceptionally well-preserved new addition, which also has its original frame, the hitherto missing motif, which was so important to Friedrich's art, finds its way into the collection of paintings at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. And at the same time the picture returns to Hamburg. Already in the 19th century it was owned by the living in Hamburg writer Elise Campe, who gave the image probably shortly before her death in 1873 Milly Brockhaus, the daughter of the publisher Heinrich Brockhaus living in Leipzig, whose descendants it still belongs today.

In the presence of the owner, the work »Ruin Oybin« could be handed over today as a new highlight in the Caspar David Friedrich Hall.