Hermann Urban, Epos

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‘Epos’
Biography: Hermann Urban

Depicted is ‘Forte di San Giorgio’, or ‘Fortress of St. George’ or ‘Kastell Capraja’ in Italy.
– displayed at the Grosse Berliner Kunstaustellung, 1914;
– displayed at the Grosse Münchener Kunstausttellung in the Glaspalast, 1918;
– depicted in ‘Münchner Künstler Köpfe’, 1937, page 287.
Monumental painting of 196 x 168 cm, created in 1913.

Depicted in the official exhibition catalogue of the ‘Grosse Münchener Kunstausstellung’ 1918 in the Glaspalast, page 18.
Described in the official exhibition catalogue of the ‘Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung’ 1914, second edition, under the name ‘Ruin’. A sticker on the back of the painting reads ‘Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung 1914’.

Hermann Urban, ‘Epos’ depicted in the official exhibition catalogue of the ‘Grosse Münchener Kunstausstellung’, 1918 in the Glaspalast, page 18.

The sticker on the back, reading ‘Grosse Berliner Kunstaustellung’, 1914′.

Hermann Urbann, ‘Epos’. Depicted in ‘Münchner Künstler Köpfe’, 1937, page 287 (a later, second version of ‘Epos’ was displayed at the Grosse Münchener Kunstausstellung 1938, Maximilianeum, under the name ‘Kastell Capraja’).

‘Epos’
Depicted is the ‘Forte di San Giorgio’, or ‘Fortress of St. George’ (or ‘Kastell Capraja’). The fortress is located on the Island of Capraia, one of the seven islands of the Tuscan Archipelago. The castle was built in 1540 by Genoese, after the destruction by the corsair Dragut of the existing settlement, based on a Pisan fortress of the XII century. From 1892 to 1894 Hermann Urban travelled to Italy, were he studied under Arnold Böcklin in Florence. The Island of Capraia is relatively close to Florence and it is quite likely that Urban visited the fortress in this period.

Forte di San Giorgio, 2013.

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