Zingst, 1957

About the Work

Tübke frequently visited the Baltic Sea spa town of Zingst, with its Neogothic Church of Sts Peter and Paul, to make studies. In this spirited pen-and-ink drawing, he laid out a lush landscape with a cathedral rising up like a vision in the background. The drawn lines—particularly those describing the foliage—echo the formal language of the Danube School of Dürer’s time. The filigree Gothic architecture, on the other hand, harks back to Romanticism’s effusive image of the Middle Ages.