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Project for the High Altar in the Church "Am Hof", Vienna
Project for the High Altar in the Church "Am Hof", Vienna

Project for the High Altar in the Church "Am Hof", Vienna

Primary (Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, 1703–Vienna, Austria, 1761)
NationalityGerman, Europe
Date1730s
MediumPen and black ink and watercolor
DimensionsSheet: 15 × 9 in. (38.1 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1188
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1188
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Label Text
Kleiner trained as an engraver and specialized in architectural views. This study is one of four such views of Viennese church interiors in the Suida-Manning Collection. Like most of Kleiner’s work, they were probably intended for a series of prints. This particular view records the high altar in Vienna’s principal Jesuit church. The altar was designed by Andrea Pozzo, a renowned architect, theorist, and master of perspectival construction who had close ties to the Order. Executed in 1709, the altar was destroyed in a renovation of the late 1700s.
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