Boeken | Natuur | Het Bestiarium van Aloys Zotl (1831-1887)

Meulenhoff/Landshoff

1979

93 blz.

Heel veel prachtige kleurenfotos van dierschilderijen van de Oostenrijkse meesterschilderAloys Zöit

Staat: goed, achterkaft heeft rechtsonder een knikje.

These beautiful watercolours come from the Austrian painter Aloys Zötl's Bestiarium, a series of exquisite paintings of various animals undertaken from 1831 through until his death in 1887. He was relatively unknown until, decades after his death, his work was "re-discovered" by surrealist André Breton who was taken by the surrealist aesthetic he saw present in the images - as he writes: "Lacking any biographical details about the artist, one can only indulge one's fantasies in imagining the reasons which might have induced this workman from Upper Austria, a dyer by profession, to undertake so zealously between 1832 and 1887 the elaboration of the most sumptuous bestiary ever seen." (Wikipedia)