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Emil Jakob Schindler (1842-1892) visited Dalmatia for the first time in 1874, after receiving a commision to paint two large paintings with motifs of Mediterranean landscape for the Viennese industrialist Baron Friedrich von Lichtenberg. During another long journey which took place in winter 1887/88, he produced numerous drawings and sketches depicting mainly motifs from Dubrovnik and its surroundings, which he would later transfer to canvas in his Viennese studio. Schindlers´s third journey to Dalmatia took place in 1890, when he painted numerous subjects that later proveded the bases for the illustrations for the edition The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures. |
