Description

It is both a spiritual and an emotional journey. Schubert’s famous “Die schöne Müllerin” is song-cycle about a young man’s search for love. He finds echoes of all his moods reflected in the river as it travels through an ever-changing landscape.

The river in fact gives centrality to the story. We begin at the source. Schubert’s rippling musical accompaniments to the songs suggest the flowing of water and provide many visual images for the paintings. Eventually, we arrive at the mill itself and the “femme fatale”. However, her infatuation with the dark figure of “The Hunter” spells disaster for the young man. The painting depicted here is called “The Lullaby of the Brook” (Des Baches Wiegenlied). It is the last song of the cycle where the brook is singing to the broken-hearted young man and lulling him to find solace in the waters.
The paintings were first shown in the Schubertkirche in Vienna in Oct./Nov. 1996.

The river in fact gives centrality to the story. We begin at the source. Schubert’s rippling musical accompaniments to the songs suggest the flowing of water and provide many visual images for the paintings. Eventually, we arrive at the mill itself and the “femme fatale”. However, her infatuation with the dark figure of “The Hunter” spells disaster for the young man. The painting depicted here is called “The Lullaby of the Brook” (Des Baches Wiegenlied). It is the last song of the cycle where the brook is singing to the broken-hearted young man and lulling him to find solace in the waters.

The paintings were first shown in the Schubertkirche in Vienna in Oct./Nov. 1996.