Albert Ernst, View of a Coastal Town, 20th Century, Etching, Framed

Albert Ernst (1909 Fronhofen - 1996 Hamburg), View of a Coastal Town, etching, 30 x 37 cm (picture), 45 x 50.5 cm (frame), signed in pencil lower right "Albert Ernst", framed under glass.

- very good condition and attractively framed


- The Pilgrim's View -


About the artwork

Standing on a hill, we look at a bay with a town. The foreground of the picture is only slightly worked out, so that our gaze is completely absorbed in the view framed by trees. Up to the middle of the picture, the landscape is kept in a darker tonality, while the city appears brighter and the sea really shines. This brightening in the distance also focuses the view and makes the seaside city a place of longing. Accordingly, on closer inspection, we can make out a pilgrim in front of the dark thicket, walking from the foreground of the picture along the dark, hollow path that leads to the city. As the goal of his pilgrimage, a mighty church tower rises in the center of the picture, from which the shore of the sea on the other side and thus the goal of the pilgrimage of life may be recognizable.


About the artist

Albert Ernst studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Munich from 1932-1936 and was an assistant there from 1936-1941. He then worked as a freelance graphic artist, first in Munich until 1950 and then in Hamburg. In Hamburg he was also commissioned to design church windows for sacred buildings in Steilshoop, Bramfeld and Stellingen from 1977-1979.


Selected bibliography

Sauer. Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, Vol. 34, Munich - Leipzig 2002, p. 444.