Strasbourg Cathedral
Marius Bauer (1867 - 1932), 1890-1891
chalk on paper, 86 cm x 70 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
The Dutch artist Marius Bauer was an avid traveller. He made this drawing in Strasbourg. He had a distinctive drawing style, with densely placed lines, which here aptly evokes the cathedral’s gloomy interior.
Writing for the Algemeen Handelsblad a journalist praised the drawing as follows: ‘It is a shining Hallelujah in the dark tumult of the sons of men (…).’
Bauer often drew church interiors. Mesdag owned six works by him, including a drawing of the interior of Hagia Sophia in what was Constantinople (now Istanbul).
- Object number
- hwm0016
- Dimensions
- 86 cm x 70 cm, 64.5 cm x 44.5 cm
- artist
- Marius Bauer
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
The Hague, De Mesdag Collectie, De aquarel, 21 February-7 June 2015
Versteegh, Jaap, Veldink, Suzanne, Zwart op wit : de 'peintre-graveurs' van de Nederlandsche Etsclub 1885-1896, Den Haag, 2024, p. 57
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 90
Schendel, E. van, Museum Mesdag : Nederlandse negentiende-eeuwse schilderijen, tekeningen en grafiek, 's-Gravenhage, 1975, p. 29