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Victor Forabosco, Architectural design of a Greek Temple, Watercolor on Paper
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GREEK TEMPLE, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Victor Forabosco (end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century)
1895/6
Watercolour on paper, 50 x 97 cm
Victor Forabosco was a master builder, i.e. architect, structural engineer, civil engineer and site manager all rolled into one. He built villas and residential buildings in the Art Nouveau style, such as the Schmidt House in Kapfenberg (1906-7) and the works hotel of the Austrian-Alpine Coal and Steel Company in Leoben (1911-12). The present watercolour of a Greek temple was created in 1895-96 during his year of study in Hanover and was ‘attestirt’, which means accepted as a student project, by a Mr Ross. Architectural drawing was an integral part of the curriculum for architecture students. It was not only about the precisely constructed, purely technical drawing as the basis for the later construction with ground plan and elevation, but also, as here, about capturing the essence and appearance of historical building forms and reproducing them atmospherically. Forabosco's task was probably to draw an idealised temple. And that is what he did, with all the architectural elements, a great deal of imagination and a good sense of colour. As decoration, he added famous sculptures and friezes from antiquity such as Cupid and Psyche or Venus and Mars (both now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome). His depiction of temples follows stylistically in the footsteps of neo-classicist architectural paintings and vedute of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Not many such studies survived, as they were hardly considered worth keeping. It is only because Forabosco, like Schinkel, was also a talented draughtsman and his temple design is impressive and artistically appealing that it has survived and is therefore something special and rare.
Signed, dated and inscribed lower right, inscribed lower left
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- Dimensions:Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 38.19 in (97 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
- Style:Grand Tour (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1895-1896
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- Seller Location:Dresden, DE
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU10227243394512
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