Karl Gottfried Traugott Faber
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Between the almost tangible proximity of the window frame with its strict graphic structure and the miniature towers of the city silhouette, the airy expanse of Dresden's Elbe valley stretches out in a color gradient from delicate blue to bright orange. The viewer's high vantage point, as if from a bird's eye, makes the depiction seem unreal precisely because it is linked to the window as a real structural element. The cut roof and the treetops in the foreground of the view further support this impression of floating above things. In fact, however, it is the view from one of the dormer windows of the spacious estate that the tax councilor Johann Christian Gottlob Anton built for himself in 1754 on the Elbe as a retirement home, which soon developed into a popular place of excursions.
Karl Gottfried Traugott Faber, who worked in the studio of the landscape painter Johann Christian Klengel from 1804 to 1814, painted many views of Dresden. The window motif seems to be influenced by Caspar David Friedrich's paintings in which he depicts the view of the Elbe from his house.
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