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Artist |
Ingerle, Rudolph |
Title |
Smoky Mountains |
Medium |
oil on canavs |
Date |
circa 1925 |
Description |
Rudolph Ingerle (Vienna, Austria 1879-1950 Chicago) Smoky Mountains, circa 1925 Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2013 gift of the Haslam family in honor of Steve Bailey's 60th birthday Rudolph Ingerle specialized in colorful, atmospheric landscape paintings in which human activity is shown amid majestic wilderness settings. His early interest in landscape painting was inspired by the mountains of his native Austria. After settling in Chicago, Ingerle traveled the country extensively in search of picturesque outdoor settings such as the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. By the 1930s, he was spending summers in the Smokies and was involved in the establishment of the park. In 1931, he wrote an article in which he described the park's unique beauty: "Nearly always there hovers over these mountains a tenuous mist, a dreamy blue haze, like that of Indian summer…that covers all, and is beyond mystery, enchantment." Ingerle also participated in the Appalachian Exposition of 1911 held in Knoxville, one of the largest exhibitions of art in the South. |
Catalog Number |
2013.01.01 |
Search Terms |
Oil paintings Paintings Canvas Landscape paintings Landscapes (Representations) Water |
Credit line |
Gift of the Haslam family in honor of Steve Bailey's 60th birthday |