I bought this painting, which is supposedly of a German village on the Rhine called Clouds Above the Rhine and I was wondering if anyone knew what city it is.
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1The painting is clearly this: afremov.com/… but I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a real place.– HilmarCommented Feb 16 at 18:42
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This looks remarkably like the town I live in: Thun, Canton Bern, Switzerland! Not on the Rhine, but on the river Aare, which as it flows eventually arrives at the capital Bern. The photo above is my own, that I took especially to recreate the scene in the painting. Unfortunately, I cannot control the overcast conditions of a mid February Sunday.
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7do you have any evidence that the town was not built based upon the painting– TurboCommented Feb 19 at 16:31
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7@Turbo The church tower dates back to 1330 and the castle roof to 1430 but I suppose we can't rule out time travelers. Commented Feb 19 at 16:48
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While the painting is indeed a stylized Rheinland riverbank town, it might have, IMHO, been inspired by a river view of Eltville, not far from Mainz and Wiesbaden, on the right bank of the Rhine, south of Rüdesheim.
I was stationed in Wiesbaden and had many friends living there.
My favorite Eltville memory was a restaurant downtown that served kosher salted and herbed duck fat instead of butter with the basket of bread.
A Rhein cruise from Mainz to Koblenz on a sunny day is a great outing.
