In this session, Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, presents two highly finished landscape drawings acquired by the Clark in 2025: Eugen Napoleon Neureuther’s watercolor The Goose Girl (1859) and Emilie Mediz-Pelikan’s pastel View of the Watzmann from Berchtesgaden (1905). Despite their obvious differences, the connections between Neureuther’s elaborate representation of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale and Mediz-Pelikan’s serene Alpine landscape are stronger than one might think. Each composition is highly symmetrical and emphasizes exquisite natural detail, particularly in the trees and flowers. Neureuther and other German Romantics exerted an undoubted artistic influence on the younger Austrian Symbolist artist, not only for subject matter but also in her synthesis of mountain grandeur with an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere.
This talk is presented as part of a three-part series highlighting recent works on paper acquisitions. A buffet breakfast follows the program.
In addition to member events, Clark Society members receive an extraordinarily rich suite of benefits and exclusively designed programs, including invitations to exclusive and bespoke Clark Society events in Williamstown and beyond, and opportunities for early access to special exhibitions at the Clark. Learn more!
In this session, Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, presents two highly finished landscape drawings acquired by the Clark in 2025: Eugen Napoleon Neureuther’s watercolor The Goose Girl (1859) and Emilie Mediz-Pelikan’s pastel View of the Watzmann from Berchtesgaden (1905). Despite their obvious differences, the connections between Neureuther’s elaborate representation of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale and Mediz-Pelikan’s serene Alpine landscape are stronger than one might think. Each composition is highly symmetrical and emphasizes exquisite natural detail, particularly in the trees and flowers. Neureuther and other German Romantics exerted an undoubted artistic influence on the younger Austrian Symbolist artist, not only for subject matter but also in her synthesis of mountain grandeur with an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere.
This talk is presented as part of a three-part series highlighting recent works on paper acquisitions. A buffet breakfast follows the program.
In addition to member events, Clark Society members receive an extraordinarily rich suite of benefits and exclusively designed programs, including invitations to exclusive and bespoke Clark Society events in Williamstown and beyond, and opportunities for early access to special exhibitions at the Clark. Learn more!
