(1866 Mönchengladbach - 1947 Rome)
ARCO NATURAL IN CAPRI
Oil on cardboard
25.2 x 30.8 cm
signed lower right: Max Roeder
The landscape painter and architect, Max Roeder, spent most of his life in Rome and is considered one of the last Deutschrömer (German Romans). Numerous study trips to Italy took him among other places to Capri, which had been extremely popular with artists and tourists since the discovery of the Blue Grotto in 1826 by the painter August Kopisch. Roeder painted the Arco Naturale, a natural rock arch on the east coast of Capri, in an impressionistic style, relaxed, with intense colors and bathed in light.