Blue Skies Above Baden

The Graphic Collection of Freiburg's Augustinermuseum presently presents gouaches and watercolors of Johann Martin Morat, which he painted around 1820 in Baden and Switzerland.

Initially, Red Baron had no intention to visit the exhibition until Professor Jörg Stadelbauer of the Alemannisches Institut offered an Exkursion in das Bild, Freiburg aus der Ferne, i.e., an excursion into paintings showing Freiburg from a distance. In his talk, Professor Stadelbauer started with a photo from 1920 and then went back in history.

Here is a photo of Freiburg at a distance from 1920
with the Schönberg in the background.

Here is the same motif painted by Karl Hauptmann in 1910.

A wood engraving of 1887.

Another famous painter from Freiburg, Emil Lugo, did not finish his sketch in 1859.

Another engraving by Rudolf Follenweider around 1820.

Here is the line of sight that all the pictures have in common
drawn onto a topographical map of 1883.

Michael Sauter painted how he imagined Freiburg may have looked
from a distance during the French siege of 1713.
On the right-hand side are the Lorettoberg and its chapel.

Here is the first painting of Johann Martin Morat, showing vineyards in the foreground.

.The same motif shows an entirely different foreground.

On this view, the lecturer and his audience entered into a lively discussion:

Where and what is this house
that Johann Martin Morat had so prominently placed in the foreground?

Today's view of the Minster church and the Schönberg

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