Ludwig Rohbock – Johann Richter. A view of Levoča
1856 – 1860
venue of origin: Darmstadt
paper, steel engraving, size: (sheet) height 15,6 cm, width 23,5 cm, (printed area) height 11,3 cm, width 16,1 cm
signed: (on the left below the image the author of the art work) L. Rohbock delt., (on the right below the image the engraver) J. Richter sculpt.
The engraving shows Levoča from the South with its main architectural landmarks: the parish church of St. James, the old and the new Greyfriars Church and Convent, the town hall, the building of the barracks, fortifications with the ramparts, as well as the third church at the Marian Mount with five chapels along the access way to it. The background is created by the silhoutte of the Levoča Hills. In the front view there is a figural staffage.
Ludwig Rohbock – Georg Michael Kurz. The Spiš Castle and the town of Spišské Podhradie
1856 – 1860
enue of origin: Darmstadt
paper, steel engraving, size: (sheet) height 15,2 cm, width 24,1 cm, (printed area) height 10,9 cm, width 16,3 cm
signed: (on the left below the image the author of the art work) L. Rohbock delt., (on the right below the image the engraver) G. M. Kurz sculpt.
The author placed a figural staffage into the front view. The middle section is filled in with the architecture of Spišské Podhradie with its landmarks, such as the parish church, the evangelical church and the convent of the Merciful Brethren Order. The ruin of the Spiš Castle is towering above the town and, behind it, there is a silhoutte of Branisko.
Ludwig Rohbock – Franz Hablitschek. A view of Kežmarok and the High Tatras
1856 – 1860
venue of origin: Darmstadt
paper, steel engraving, size: (sheet) height 17,2 cm, width 25,9 cm, (printed area) height 10,9 cm, width 17,1 cm
signed: (on the left below the image the author of the art work) L. Rohbock delt., (on the right below the image the engraver) F. Hablitschek sculpt.
The engraving depicts the architectural landmarks of the town: the Kežmarok castle, the parish church of St. Cross, the belfry and the church of Pauline Fathers. On the other side there is the dominant of the region – the Tatran peaks filling in the back section.
Ludwig Rohbock – Georg Michael Kurz. Smokovec spa
1856 – 1860
venue of origin: Darmstadt
paper, steel engraving, size: (sheet) height 15,2 cm, width 24,1 cm, (printed area) height 11,8 cm, width 17,2 cm
signed: (on the left below the image the author of the art work) L. Rohbock delt., (on the right below the image the engraver) G. M. Kurz sculpt.
Rohbock’s view of Smokovec with bath houses set into the Tatran woody nature is very close to a slightly older work by Teodor Boemm. Both artists had chosen an almost identical place for the depiction of the well known recreational locality, where one can, in additon to Smokovec, observe the original massif of the High Tatras with Slavkovský Peak at the centre. There is a figural staffage at the front.
Ludwig Rohbock – Joseph Maximilian Kolb – Wiliam Knopfmacher.
St. Martin’s Cathedral in Spišská Kapitula
1856 – 1860
venue of origin: Darmstadt
paper, steel engraving, size: (gummed sheet) height 24,1 cm, width 30,3 cm, (printed area) height 10,5 cm, width 15,9 cm
signed: (on the left below the image the author of the art work) L. Rohbock delt., (on the right below the image the editor and the engraver) J. M. Kolb dirext. Knopfmacher sculpt.
The central motif of the engraving is the Spišská Kapitula Cathedral of St. Martin, surrounded by the walls, on the left the Bishop’s Palace and the Upper Gate, on the right the entrance gate (in the south-western section)| and the former Jesuits’ seminary.
Ludwig Rohbock – Franz Hablitschek. A view of the Tatras from the village of Slavkov
1856 – 1860
venue of origin: Darmstadt
paper, (frame) wood, steel engraving, (frame) carving, size: (with the frame) height 23,8 cm, width 33,6 cm, (printed area) height 10,7 cm, width 16,8 cm
signed: (on the left below the image the author of the art work) L. Rohbock delt., (on the right below the image the engraver) F. Hablitschek sculpt.
A view of the High Tatras and the village of Great Slavkov. At the front there are trees and fields, the central section is created by the panorama of the village with St. Andrew’s Church and the rear part is filled in with the High Tatran peaks: Lomnický, Ľadový and Slavkovský.
Ludwig Rohbock – Adrián Fesca. Studenovodský (Cold Water) Waterfall
1856 – 1860
venue of origin: Darmstadt
paper, (frame) wood, steel engraving, (frame) carving, size: (with frame) height 33,6 cm, width 23,8 cm, (printed area) height 16,7 cm, width 11,9 cm
signed: (on the left below the image the author of the art work) L. Rohbock delt., (on the right below the image the engraver) A. Fesca sculpt.
A purely landscape image from the Tatras showing the Studenovodský (Cold Water) Waterfall with the silhoutte of the Tatras at the background.
Theodor Boemm (Tivadar Boemm) – Johann Varrone (Giovanni Battista Varrone). Starý Smokovec
around 1859
venue of origin: Vienna
paper, coloured lithography, size: (sheet) height 55,5 cm, width 68,5 cm, (printed area) height 34 cm, width 46 cm
signed: (on the left below the image the author of the art work) fest. Boemm Tivadar, (on the right below the image the author of the lithography) Kӧre rajz. Varrone J. (in the middle below the image the editor) Nyom. Reiffenstein és Rösch Bécseben.
The author of the work is Teodor Boemm (1822, Mukachevo – 1889, Dresden) and the lithography was made by the Italian/Swiss painter and graphic designer Johann Varrone (Giovanni Battista Varrone). As a child, Theodor Boemm had moved to Levoča with his family and later became a student of a Levoča painter Joseph Czauczik. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Having graduated from the Academy he had settled in Levoča and was active there as a tutor of drawing. In addition to landscape images he was making paintings for sacral interiors and was one of the portraitists of the Spiš aristocratic family Csáky. In 1881 he returned to Dresden where he continued working (works of this period are unknown) and, eventually, died. Both his daughters, Ritta and Clare, were artistically active too.
David Kuntz. Das pittoreske Oesterreich oder Album der österreichischen Monarchie. Die Zipser Gespanschaft in Ober Ungarn (Picturesque Austria or an Album of Austrian Monarchy. The Spiš County in Upper Hungary)
1840
Venue of edition: Vienna, publisher: Kunsthandlung H. F. Müller, German, Gothic script
Material and technique: paper (book sheets), cardboard (cover), print, hardback, originally paper wrapped, 54 pages , 5 inset sheets of coloured lithographies and 1 map, height 27,5 cm, width 21 cm, depth 1 cm
A book on the old Spiš County came out as the fifth booklet of a large planned series „Das pittoreske Oesterreich oder Album der österreichischen Monarchie“, (Picturesque Austria or an Album of Austrian Monarchy. The Spiš County in Upper Hungary) which was to map the whole area of the contemporary monarchy. The work is a typical example of topographical literature of the mid 19th century, the aim of which was to bring, to a maximum possible extent, information from the given region. The author of individual water colours is Jacob Alt (1838) and the lithographies for the publication were made by Joseph Zahradniczek (Zahradnicžek).