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The Rauschberg
About the Artwork
Alongside his career as a connoisseur and art historian, Dillis drew and painted enthusiastically. Between 1808 and 1814 he was a professor of landscape painting at the Munich Academy. Most of his work consists of freely painted watercolors and oil sketches executed directly from nature. This atmospheric study of the staggeringly high Rauschberg mountain may have been influenced by English watercolors, with which Dillis was familiar.
Inscriptions
[by artist?], lower right, in graphite: M[illegible] Rauschberg [illegible] ; VERSO, along lower edge, in brown ink: M[illegible] ; along lower edge in graphite: [illegible] no. 9606 (9606 underlined)
Provenance
collection of the artist (estate stamp, verso, center left, in black ink: Dillis[illegible]chlaß / Sammlg. Einsels / Nr. 46 (46 inscribed in red ink)[Paul Drey Gallery, New York]
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978). German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980). The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993). Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Georg von Dillis (German, 1759–1841)
- Date
- c. 1800
- Medium
- black chalk, graphite, and white gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 21.8 x 25.3 cm (8 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 29.9 x 32.6 cm (11 3/4 x 12 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Accession no.
- 1977.46
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011419
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