Photo, Print, Drawing View of Sarajevo. Ansicht von Sarajevo
About this Item
Title
- View of Sarajevo.
Other Title
- Ansicht von Sarajevo
Summary
- Gyula (Julius) Háry (1864--1946) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist, best known for his detailed watercolors of picturesque scenes in Austria-Hungary and Italy. He was born in Zalaegerszeg, in western Hungary, and studied art at the Budapest School for Applied Arts. Háry first went to Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1884, six years after control of the province was transferred from the Ottoman Empire to Austria-Hungary under the terms of the 1878 Treaty of Berlin. He made several return visits to Sarajevo and produced a number of watercolors and drawings of the city. This signed ink drawing heightened with white is part of the original artwork for the Kronprinzenwerk (The crown prince's work), the short name for a 24-volume illustrated encyclopedia of all the Crown lands and peoples of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. It was published in 1886--1902 under the title Die österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (The Austro-Hungarian monarchy in word and picture) in both German and Hungarian. The project was initiated by Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and coordinated by him until his death in 1889. It reflects his faith in liberalism, science, and progress. Rudolf's vision was to depict without partiality and as equal all peoples and ethnographic groups of the monarchy. This drawing was included in the volume dedicated to Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in 1901.
Names
- Háry, Gyula, 1864-1946 Artist.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1884 to 1902]
Headings
- - Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo
- - 1884 to 1902
- - Cities and towns
- - Cityscapes
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "The original drawings that served as a basis for the illustrations of the Austrian ("Cisleithanian") part of the "Kronprinzenwerk" were incorporated as a special collection into the private library of the Habsburg family after the publication of the last volume of the encyclopedia in Vienna 1902. The collection is preserved as a treasure in the Picture Archives Department of the Austrian National Library. It consists of 2548 brush, pen, and pencil drawings by more than 200 artists. The pictures of landscapes, of monuments and of folkloristic and economic themes from areas from Tyrol to Bukovina are of high scientific and artistic value. They are a unique source on the cultural history of the Crown lands and their peoples at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and the last comprehensive pictorial self-representation of the multi-ethnic empire before its collapse."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: Ink drawing heightened with white.
- - Original resource at: Austrian National Library.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Picture Archives Department
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021669963
Online Format
- compressed data
- image