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Winter landscape with railroad bridge, footpath under the viaduct, Oberfrohnaer Straße
Brücke Museum Berlin Collection
This painting was also created in Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's Berlin studio and is also closely associated with his home in Chemnitz, which he often explored on walks. There are two versions of the motif, but both show the viaduct in winter. The painting on the panel is in the Brücke Museum in Berlin, a smaller copy is in the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
The Rabenstein Viaduct was a bridge on the former Saxon Limbach-Wüstenbrand railroad line in Chemnitz-Rabenstein. It was one of the first bridges to use alloy steel instead of cast iron. During Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's time in his home town, trains still ran over the bridge. It was not until 1950 that rail operations were discontinued, after which the tracks were dismantled. The construction material was used for repairs on the Stendal-Uelzen railroad line, so the painting was painted a year after the last train passed.
The viaduct has been a listed building since 1986, and the railroad line is now used as a hiking trail after being rebuilt in 1984. Following renovation work completed in October 2023, the bridge is now also open to cyclists.
Year 1951
Material / Technique: Oil on canvas, Painting
(Source: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Werke in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, published by Ingrid Mössinger in 2015 as an inventory catalog of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.)
www.kunstsammlungen-chemnitz.de
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