Curatorial Narrative In the context of late 19th-century landscape painting, Peipers’ Schandau with the Lilienstein stands out for its bold departure from traditional approaches to representation. Painted in 1873, this work marks a turning point in the artist’s oeuvre, as he begins to explore the expressive potential of loose brushwork and an emphasis on atmospheric effect over literal detail. The result is a painting that eschews the ornate, illustrative quality of earlier Romantic landscape painting for a more austere, modernist aesthetic.When enlarged to its actual size of 73×44 inches, Schandau with the Lilienstein reveals a nuanced interplay between material presence and spatial depth. The muted palette a complex interweaving of greys, browns, greens, and yellows functions as a kind of atmospheric filter, modulating the viewer’s experience of the painting’s three-dimensional structure. In this larger format, the chromatic str