Loferer Steinberge Mountain Range (Eastern Alps)

According to the title of the painting, the partly bright turquoise river reflecting grass in the foreground must be the Saalach. Its course, disappearing round a bend, is accentuated by tree-trunk and stumps, rocks, bushes and wooded hills. This deserted early autumn landscape is rounded off by a wooded rock formation with snow lying on its upper reaches.
In the 19th century, the "Loferer Steinberge" were not amongst the proliferating motifs such as the Watzmann. Moreover, the standpoint chosen for this work is not that of the standard view in pictures, and later postcards, in which the unmistakable peak of the Kreuzreifhorn projects between Ochsenhorn and Breithorn beyond Lofer. This work appears to show a “side view” of the Ochsenhorn in the northern limestone Alps.

Ducke Astrid: Austrian, Loferer Steinberge Mountaine Range (Eastern Alps). In: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hg./Ed.): Stadt - Land - Berg. Salzburg und seine Umgebung. Town - Landscape - Mountain. Salzburg and surroundings. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2022, p. 162, illus. p. 163