Symbol manipulation isn’t a phenomenon of the social media age – seventeenth century Dutch artists already altered truth to make it extra gorgeous. The illustrator Lambert Dumer (1624-1700) introduced the landscape of Cologne nearer to himself when he captured it from the opposite facet of the Rhine. This made the composition appear extra coherent and dense.
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Dumer’s view of Cologne, created round 1663, may also be noticed from Friday (November 14) to March 15 subsequent 12 months within the exhibition “Expedition Drawing – Dutch Masters in the spotlight” on the Wallraf-Rihart Museum.
“Already back then, there were points that were drawn again and again, like today on social networks, so the photos had to be ‘Instagramable’,” says artwork historian Annemarie Steffes. As an example, this referred to the enormous Basilica of the Holy Apostles in Cologne.
Dutch artists had been drawn to Cologne by way of its respected, robust and Catholic nature as it was once unknown to them – within the then Dutch Republic the Catholic religion was once formally forbidden, even supposing it was once tolerated underground. “There were a whole bunch of Dutch people who thought Cologne was great,” Steffes says.
Then again, Kleve with its Schwanenburg was once much more in style. Maximum Dutch artists who traveled to Cologne selected motifs within the town heart, such because the cathedral, which was once nonetheless unfinished on the time. Dümer, alternatively, additionally drew town out of water, making Cologne glance very similar to Dutch towns comparable to Dordrecht, Nijmegen, and Amsterdam, that have been additionally continuously depicted out of water.
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