Artist: Fritz Bamberger
Size: 112 x 73 cm
Museum: Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga (Málaga, Spain)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Painted by Bamberger in Munich after his second trip to Spain, the painting is a combination of various views of the southern coast of Spain from the beach at Estepona in the province of Malaga to Gibraltar in the distance, dominated by its rock. It is therefore not a topographically accurate view but rather the recreation of the monumental effect, through its breadth and impression of spatial depth, of the westernmost part of Spain’s southern coastline. It is a sort of quintessence of that vast terrain which includes mountains, dunes, marshes, beaches and cliffs and on whose horizon is clearly silhouetted the Rock of Gibraltar. Gibraltar was one of the most famous natural features of the Iberian Peninsula. From the 1770s it was studied by British geologists and it was a frequent subject for view painters and illustrators. Bamberger adopted it as one of his favourite, and probably most popular, subjects. By 1851 he had already exhibited in Frankfurt a
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