Subterranean Jail for the Stage
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¿Dónde está «Subterranean Jail for the Stage» hoy? Colección: Museo de Arte de Cleveland, Cleveland. No expuesta por ahora. Comprobado 29 de septiembre de 2026.
Cleveland, Estados Unidos
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Trained as an architect, Abel Schlicht also designed stage sets for the Mannheim National Theater. An important forum for German cultural identity, the theater was one of the first companies to produce exclusively German-language plays, including those by beloved playwright Friedrich Schiller. Prisons were an especially popular drama subject in the 1700s, and sets would have featured in multiple productions. Here, Schlicht employed aquatint to render the gloomy space of one of his prison scenes. This technique enabled the artist to create the range of tones used to illuminate the background and plunge the foreground into darkness.
Museo de Arte de Cleveland
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- 2003.23
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