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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Otto Geleng was best known in his hometown of Berlin for his landscape views, which he composed and painted in Italy but exhibited in Germany. He chose to depict the lesser-known southern regions where he captured the spectacular views and light of Sicily. He often painted the area's Greek colonial ruins, including Taormina, situated on the Mediterranean. Taormina's first important tourist was Johann Wolfgang Goethe who dedicated exalting pages to the city in his Italian Journey but perhaps it was Geleng's views that made its beauty talked about throughout Europe and turned the site into a famous tourist centre. The artist arrived in Sicily at the age of 20 in search of new subjects for his paintings. On his way through Taormina he was so enamoured by the landscape that he decided to stop for part of the winter and regularly returned to the subject, as he has done here. The site is a Greek amphitheatre, erected in the second century BC and expanded by the Romans. The crumbling walls and columns stand on a high plateau above the Bay of Naxos and Calabrian Coast. In the distance stands Mount Etna. | Subjects: | Mount Etna) landscape; place (Taormina | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Geleng, Otto (German landscapist, active 19th century) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8634... | Go to resource |
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