Hermann Ottomar Herzog American, 1832-1932 Heading West, 1856 Signed H. Herzog and dated 56 (lr); numbered 15 on the stretcher Oil on canvas 18 7/8 x 24 inches Provenance: Private collection, Germany An artist who emigrated to America in about 1868, settling in Philadelphia, German-born Herman Herzog studied in Düsseldorf as well as privately with the Norwegian painter Hans Frederick Gude. The romantic-realist style of Gude is reflected in Herzog's Heading Home of 1866, which portrays a family traveling in a covered wagon through a desolate and dramatic landscape. Civilization is far behind in the distant valley, while the dirt road ahead appears to be narrowing as it heads into the wilderness. Seen from a distant panoramic perspective under a sky that threatens rain, the figures and wagon are a diminutive presence, heightening our concern for the family's safe journey home. The site may be the Teutoburg Forest (Teutoburger Wald), a range of hills and low mountains in northwest Germany. A relative of the Conestoga wagon introduced to the United States by Germans who settled in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century, the light horse-drawn covered wagon with tall wheels and a canvas top, depicted by Herzog, was a common sight in the upper Rhine Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art
Hermann Ottomar Herzog American, 1832-1932 Heading West, 1856 Signed H. Herzog and dated 56 (lr); numbered 15 on the stretcher Oil on canvas 18 7/8 x 24 inches Provenance: Private collection, Germany An artist who emigrated to America in about 1868, settling in Philadelphia, German-born Herman Herzog studied in Düsseldorf as well as privately with the Norwegian painter Hans Frederick Gude. The romantic-realist style of Gude is reflected in Herzog's Heading Home of 1866, which portrays a family traveling in a covered wagon through a desolate and dramatic landscape. Civilization is far behind in the distant valley, while the dirt road ahead appears to be narrowing as it heads into the wilderness. Seen from a distant panoramic perspective under a sky that threatens rain, the figures and wagon are a diminutive presence, heightening our concern for the family's safe journey home. The site may be the Teutoburg Forest (Teutoburger Wald), a range of hills and low mountains in northwest Germany. A relative of the Conestoga wagon introduced to the United States by Germans who settled in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century, the light horse-drawn covered wagon with tall wheels and a canvas top, depicted by Herzog, was a common sight in the upper Rhine Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art
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