After almost 80 years, the drawing "Pilgrims in the Roman Campagna", which has been missing since the Second World War, is returning to the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett. According to the museum, which is part of the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD), the watercolor brush drawing by Victor Paul Mohn (1842-1911), a pupil of Ludwig Richter, was acquired in 1908 and reappeared in the run-up to an auction in Munich. According to SKD, the owner donated the sheet to the museum as part of an amicable agreement brokered by the art auction house.
"It is always a very special moment when one of the Kupferstich-Kabinett's works lost during the war turns up unexpectedly," said Stephanie Buckund, Director of the Kupferstich-Kabinett, thanking the auction house for supporting its return. The landscape study was created in 1866 on a trip to Italy, which the young painter undertook together with Albert Venus and Carl Wilhelm Müller, said Buck. "It also tells of inspiration through travel and friendship."
