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Drachenfels 1 Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 23.6 W x 27.6 H x 1.7 D in
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The Drachenfels (Dragon's Rock) is a hill overlooking the Rhine in the Siebengebirge uplands between Königswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany. The ruined castle Burg Drachenfels, on the summit of the hill, was built between 1138 and 1167 by Archbishop Arnold I of Cologne and bears the same name. Several legends surround the Drachenfels, most famously that Siegfried – the hero of the Nibelungenlied – killed the dragon Fafnir, who lived in a cave in the hill, then bathed in its blood to become invulnerable. Hence, the hill is named the "Dragon's Rock". The visit of Lord Byron to Mehlem and its appearance in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage provided the rock with international attention. It soon became a highlight of the so-called Rhine romanticism. In 2017 I traveled along the Rhine making sketches to commemorate the Bi-Centenary of JMW Turner's first visit to the area, which I later turned into oil paintings in my studio in England.
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Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:23.6 W x 27.6 H x 1.7 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Ted Toms was born in Chelmsford, England in 1948 and studied at Colchester School of Art, where he was taught life drawing and painting by some leading contemporary artists, including Peter Coker, John Nash and Peter Blake. He finds inspiration for his landscape and seascape painting from the Stour Estuary, close to his studio in Bradfield in Essex and from frequent visits to the Rhine Valley in Germany. His work is in private collections in the UK, Europe and the United States.
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