Interior of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
image: 24 × 15.8 cm · sheet: 46.2 × 31.5 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1998.8
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
Renowned as an architect and an imaginative draftsman and painter, Schinkel was an important early practitioner of lithography, a technique invented at the end of the 18th century in Germany. Schinkel experimented with this new medium in creative ways, searching for a means to achieve tone. In order to simulate the effect of bright light illuminating the interior of Saint Stephen's Cathedral, he covered the surface of the stone with lithographic ink and then scratched out the design with a sharp...