6723 x 4960 px | 56,9 x 42 cm | 22,4 x 16,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1879
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Aloys Zötl, Der See-Elefant - 7. Januar 1879 Zötl was a simple master dyer in a small Austrian town. For more than 50 years he made systematically aquarells of animals, starting with mammals, finishing with mollusks. He never sold one of them, nearly never showed them to others. I think he saw it as his private and personal encylopedia. He never worked after living models - even when painting animals which were living in his surroundings. He worked after books e.g. of the 18.th century he owned. But obviously he was not satisfied that in scientific books the animals were all standing isolated. So he added some fauna and countryside. The fauna disregarding whether it would exist in the natural environment of the animal. I think that makes those pictures so exotic, nearly like a Rousseau. Zötl would be completely unknown today if not in 1959 Zötl's work accidentally was offered in an auction in Hotel Drouot in Paris. André Breton saw a kind of surrealist in him - Uglix - flickr