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The Rhine in the course of time, from the sources
to the estuary

On display is almost the entire series of gouache paintings of the «Rhine Voyage» by Johann Ludwig (Louis) Bleuler (1792–1850). The 77 exhibited gouaches were created in around 1820. In a total of 80 sheets Bleuler and his students portrayed the river along its length of 1238.8 kilometres. From the sources of the Rhine at Lake Toma in Grisons via Chur, Vaduz, Constance, Schaffhausen, Basle, Strasbourg, Speyer, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Utrecht and Leiden to the estuary into the North Sea near Rotterdam, Johann Ludwig Bleuler has recorded the towns, the variety of landscapes and the standards of transport technology with meticulous attention to detail and great painterly sensitivity. He has succeeded therefore in creating a new genre in landscape art which exceeds the depiction of vedute solely as souvenirs. These gouaches have been provided by the Liechtenstein National Museum and originate from the collection of Adulf Peter Goop. He occupied himself throughout his lifetime with Johann Ludwig Bleuler’s extraordinary quality gouaches.