Johann Peter Krafft, 1825 - Arindal and Daura - fine art print

This 19th century artwork with the title Arindal and Daura was made by the male Austrian artist Johann Peter Krafft in 1825. The 190 year old masterpiece measures the size: 161 x 213 cm - frame: 181 x 234 x 10 cm. Oil on canvas was used by the painter as the technique for the work of art. Nowadays, this artwork is included in the art collection of Belvedere, which is one of Europe's most famous museums with three locations that blends the experience of architecture and art in a unique way. With courtesy of © Belvedere, Vienna, inventory number: 3711 (public domain license). The creditline of the artwork is the following: transfer from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. - 1939 inventory in 1921. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter Johann Peter Krafft was a European artist, whose art style can mainly be assigned to Realism. The Austrian artist was born in 1780 in Hanau, Hessen state, Germany and deceased at the age of 76 in the year 1856.

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Johann Peter Krafft presents in this painting a scene from the Ossian songs. The author of this Scottish epic from the 18th century, James Macpherson was before, he had translated the work from the Gaelic. The poet claimed that the actual author was Ossian been who should have lived in the 3rd century AD. J. W. v. Goethe was processing the Ossian songs in his "Sorrows of Young Werther", of which Krafft can inspire in his presentation. Daura sits on a rocky island and looks shocked over her shoulder. She sees her husband Armar on the left side as he plunges straight off a cliff into the raging sea, to reach the rocking in the waves boat. So he tries to save his wife, who was brought out of revenge by Erath on this deserted island. Armar had in fact killed his brother. With one hand Daura bases his dying brother Arindal that her husband has mortally wounded by a mistake. Before dying is a broken arrow that has probably met him. The arrangement of the two figures is reminiscent of a Pieta. Frodl Snowman notes that the face Daura Botticelli was borrowed, while the painter orientation in the landscape of Joseph Vernet's romantic seascapes [¹]. The painting was created as a counterpart to "Ossian and Malvina" (Vienna Museum, inv. No. 117469). Notes: [1] Frodl Snowman, Marianne: Johann Peter Krafft. From 1780 to 1856. Monograph and list of paintings, Vienna / Munich 1984, p.120 [Catherine Lovecký 7/2010]