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MorItz Von schWInD
Vienna 1804 – 1871 Munich
25 The Final Scene from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s
“Zauberflöte”, 1864
Design for the lunette fresco in the loggia of the Viennese opera
house
watercolor, pen in brown ink over graphite, heightened with white
314 x 498 mm
signed and inscribed by the artist lower center: “im andenken an
den sommer 1864 / Mvschwind”
literatUre:
Brigitte hauptner (ed.), Moritz von Schwind – Zauberflöte, exh.
cat. Belvedere Vienna 2004, p. 86, cat. no. 28, ill. p. 87
siegmar holsten (ed.), Moritz von Schwind. Meister der
Spätromantik, exh. cat. Karlsruhe/leipzig 1996/97, p. 230, cat. no.
407, ill.
ProVenance:
collection Michael Berolzheimer, garmisch-Partenkirchen
adolf weinmüller, Munich, March 9 – 10, 1939, no. 884
albertina, Vienna (inv. no. 28144)
restituted to the heirs of Michael Berolzheimer in 2010
in a letter from June 12 th , 1864 Moritz von schwind wrote
regarding his designs for the frescoes of Vienna’s opera loggia:
“recently i am installed at lake starnberg and am working on
compositions for the loggia of the new Viennese opera house. i
hope you will agree that in this context only Mozart is appropriate,
and particularly Mozart’s “Magic Flute”. You may laugh, but
this is the most perfect subject i could want, since for years i have
worked on it and can see clearly the architectural settings.”*
*exh. cat. Belvedere Vienna 2004, p. 86, fn. 1