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Paul VON SPAUN, Capri at Sunset, 1911
Paul VON SPAUN, Capri at Sunset, 1911

Paul VON SPAUN 1876 Scheibbs -1932 Innsbruck

Capri at Sunset, 1911
Olio su tela
67 x 130 cm
82 x 146 x 4 cm (with the frame)
Signed and dated bottom left: Paul von Spaun / 1911
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Paul von Spaun was the youngest of seven siblings born into an aristocratic Austrian family. Following in the footsteps of his brother Friedrich, he himself a painter, Paul devoted himself to the world of art, first attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and then continuing his studies in Munich, where he mainly focused on portraiture. In 1897, Paul and his brother Friedrich joined the “Humanitas” artists’ commune founded by Carl Wilhelm Diefenbach.

Paul’s familiarity with the latter exerted a huge influence on both his painting and his lifestyle. Diefenbach led a life of continuous struggle with the constraints and contradictions of bourgeois society, becoming a leading light of nudism, vegetarianism, and naturism in an incessant search for a primitive and primordial religiosity, aimed at rediscovering the archaic relationship between Man and Nature. In the early years of the twentieth century, Diefenbach moved to Capri, soon followed by Von Spaun, and they were to remain there until the outbreak of the First World War, finding this Neapolitan island an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

During these years, Paul von Spaun created several extraordinary paintings, almost all seascapes, which allowed him to enjoy great, well-deserved fame. From his master the artist learned how to deal with colour and light in an exemplary way, two elements that play a key role in his works.

 

In the refined sunset presented here, in which the intensity of the sun’s heat has imbued the sky with infinite hues and the waters of the sea with as many reflections, we find great technical proficiency in the painter’s use of colour. The silhouettes of the pine trees darkly imprinted beyond the cliff to contrast the delicate chromatic veils of the sky, are an example of great painterly prowess.

 

As for the subject depicted, we can identify this particular view with the island of Capri, where von Spaun and Diefenbach remained until the outbreak of war, thanks to the discovery of another painting, this time by Diefenbach, dated bottom left “Capri 1900”.

 

 K.W. Diefenbach, Capri, 1900

 
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