The Rhine in Time
On display until 11 October 2015 at the Spielzeug Welten Museum in Basel, Switerland, is almost the entire series of gouache landscape paintings of the Rhine Voyage by Johann Ludwig (Louis) Bleuler (1792–1850). In a total of 80 sheets, Bleuler and his students portrayed the river along its length of 1238.8km. From the sources of the Rhine at Lake Toma to the estuary into the North Sea near Rotterdam, Bleuler recorded the towns, the variety of landscapes and the standards of transport technology, with meticulous attention to detail and great painterly sensitivity, therefore succeeding in creating an amazing new genre in landscape art.
