Statues in the Snow, Mirabell Gardens, Salzburg. 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.
These are the rest of my sketches from the last two weeks in Hallein, Austria. As I’m not used to driving with heavy snow on the roads I tended to move around more on sunny days. Hence the clear skies in many of these pieces.
The first few are from Salzburg, a city rightly famous for it’s beauty. It also has a really Italian feel to it as a couple of the architects who designed the major structures hailed from Italy.
Salzburg. 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.
Salzburg Steeples. 35 x 25 cm, oil on panel.
The next ones are from the small villages in the foothills of the Alps around Salzburg.
Faistenau, Morning. 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.
Faistenau Afternoon. 30 x 20 cm, oil on panel.
Faistenau Evening (color study). 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.
St Gilgen Roofs. 25 x 35 cm, oil on panel.
St. Gilgen, Evening. 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.
St. Leonhard. 20 x 30 cm, oil on panel.
And the last two are from just over the border into Southern Germany.
Berchtesgaden (unfinished, I left out their cathedral). 30 x 20 cm, oil on panel.
St. Bartholomä am Königssee. 25 x 35 cm, oil on panel.
These paintings as well as some enlarged studio pieces (done from these sketches) will be in a group show of local landscapes in Hallein in June.
If Monet’s pictures made Cezanne “turn up his collar,” then yours make me put on several layers of polartec, my double-insulated boots, and my wetsuit face mask! Bravo to your usual brilliance, and for giving us a truly truthful expression of what it’s like to be outside!
What wonderful paintings of a beautiful city and country I love very much. I went to university in Salzburg for 2 years, many years ago but my love for Salzburg has never faded. Your wonderful paintings really capture the feeling and the cold! I’m enjoying looking at them very much especially as I am an aspiring painter mysely. Beautiful. Wish I were there. Carol Stein
Simple and beautiful.