Schwind Moriz (2 results)

First edition. A scarce collection of albumen photographs of the Magic Flute in the loggia of the Imperial and Royal Opera House in Vienna. 1882. Held in a folding cover. Cover is ornately decorated to the front and blind embossed to the rear. Clean and tidy with fractional darkening. Inside, the flaps are a pale grey and also blind stamped. Slight marking where a paper clip (now gone) has been holding something. Inside are a title and 12 cards. The title has the the list of photographs to the rear. Albumen photographs are pasted onto the card, printed to recto only. All in excellent condition with just a slight darkening and few minor marks to the title card. #1a. Papageno (1. Akt 3. Szene); #1b. Papageno und die drei Damen (1. Akt 3. Szene); #2. Tamino und die Königin der Nacht (1. Akt 6. Szene) ; #3a. Papageno und Monostatos, (1. Akt 12. Szene); #3b. Pamina, Papageno und Sklaven, (1. Akt 17. Scene); #4, Tamino und Pamina, (1. Akt 19. Szene); #5, Pamina und Monostatos, (2. Akt 7. Szene); #6a, Papageno und Sprecher, (1. Akt 19. Szene); #6b. Papageno und altes Weib, (2. Akt 15. Scene); #7 Tamino und Pamina, (2. Akt 18. Szene); #8a. Papageno, (2. Akt 19. Szene); #8b. Papageno, Papagena und Sprecher, (2. Akt 25. Szene); #9. Pamina und die drei Knaben, (2. Akt 27. Szene); #10, Pamina und Tamino, (2. Akt 28. Szene); #11a. Papageno und die drei Knaben, (2. Akt 29. Szene); #11b. Papageno, Papagena und die drei Knaben, (2. Akt 29. Szene); #12. Schluss-Apotheose, (2. Akt 31. Szene). Schwind, the Romantic, was himself devoted with all his soul to the sister art; Not only did he like to practise, his whole being was absorbed in music. The laws of beauty seemed to him to be fulfilled more nobly than in the works of contemporary visual art in the classical musical compositions of Mozart and Beethoven, with whom he was well acquainted. What he sought there in vain: depth of feeling, clarity of expression, nobility of form, here he found it expressed. Schwind was influenced by his circle of friends with and around Franz Schubert and Franz von Schober. He took part in the "Schubertiades" (1821-1828), belonged to a reading society founded in 1822, whose members gave themselves names from the Nibelungenlied - Schubert was called "Volker the Singer" and Schwind "Giselher the Child" because of his youth - and repeatedly illustrated the same originals "that had also inspired his friend Schubert to musical utilisation" (e.g. Goethe's ballads "An Schwager Kronos", "Der Erlkönig", "Der Schatzgräber").

3 Bll. Mit 14 Tafeln in Heliogravüre. Gr.-Folio. Lose Blätter ohne Einband. Für St. Nikolaus in Bad Reichenhall schuf er 1862/63 einen Kreuzweg-Zyklus und Fresken in der Apsis. "Über den Pfeilern des Mittelschiffes aber wurden auf Goldgrund grau in grau in Medaillons die vierzehn Stationen des Kreuzweges dargestellt, deren Entwürfe die gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst in GHeliogravüren veröffentlicht". - Etwas stockfleckig, nur in losen Blättern, Textseiten an den Rändern etwas bestoßen, ohne Einband-Mappe.