DONNER, Georg Raphael
(b. 1693, Esslingen, d. 1741, Vienna)

Danube Well (detail)

1737-39
Lead-tin alloy, height 337 cm
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

The river Enns is personified by an old man. Making the sculpture quite independent, the artist softens the Baroque style with a typical Viennese taste for playful or elegiac sweetness. He looks forward to classicism and at the same time to Romantic sensitivity.




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