# Pool in the Riesengebirge

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RICHTER, Adrian Ludwig](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/richter-adrian-ludwig-rb881c96fc152db>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 63 x 88 cm

## Commentary

The naturalism of this vivid scene, with wind and the empurpled clouds of sunset, played a part in the subsequent direction of landscape painting in Germany.

## Related artworks

- [Bridal Procession in a Spring Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/richter-adrian-ludwig-rb881c96fc152db/bridal-procession-in-a-spring-landscape-r35e6b1180b2445>)
- [Crossing the Elbe at Aussig](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/richter-adrian-ludwig-rb881c96fc152db/crossing-the-elbe-at-aussig-re5a2578177b307>)
- [Genoveva in the Forest Seclusion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/richter-adrian-ludwig-rb881c96fc152db/genoveva-in-the-forest-seclusion-r5223799d646d1d>)
- [The Fuschlsee with the Schafberg Mountain in the Salzkammergut](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/richter-adrian-ludwig-rb881c96fc152db/the-fuschlsee-with-the-schafberg-mountain-in-the-salzkammergut-re170c4bdaa1039>)
- [The Watzman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/richter-adrian-ludwig-rb881c96fc152db/the-watzman-r1710720367e84d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)