J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kloster Stuben from the Riverside at Bremm; Kloster Stuben from Different Viewpoints Travelling Downstream 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kloster Stuben from the Riverside at Bremm; Kloster Stuben from Different Viewpoints Travelling Downstream’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 117 Verso:
Kloster Stuben from the Riverside at Bremm; Kloster Stuben from Different Viewpoints Travelling Downstream 1824
D19781
Turner Bequest CCXVI 115 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Red R’ top centre; ‘Stuben’ bottom left; ‘Effect of Pink Sunset’ | ‘Stuben’ | ‘[?L...]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this series of roughly wrought sketches Turner depicts the ancient ruins of the Kloster Stuben, an Augustinian convent at Bremm. Built in honour of St Nicholas, construction began in around 1137 within the grounds of an earlier monastery.1 At one time the Kloster housed plunder from the Fourth Crusade (1202–4): a piece of the Holy Cross, brought back to Germany by the knight Heinrich von Elm.2 In the late eighteenth century it was converted into a secular convent and finally, in the 1820s, the site was auctioned off for demolition, lying in ruin ever since.3 For other drawings of the Kloster, see Tate D19782, D20165, D20172, D28374, D28375; Turner Bequest CCXVI 116, CCXIX 4, 11, CCXC 12a, 13.
Turner makes note of a ‘Red R[ock]’ in the uppermost sketch at left and the atmospheric ‘Effect of [a] Pink Sunset’ over the ruined Kloster Stuben at rear.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2014

1
‘Die Geschichte’, Die Klosterruine Stuben, Bremm an der Mosel in der Calmont Region, accessed 1 May 2014, http://www.bremm.info/fl_xga.htm?/kloster.htm
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Kloster Stuben from the Riverside at Bremm; Kloster Stuben from Different Viewpoints Travelling Downstream 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kloster-stuben-from-the-riverside-at-bremm-kloster-stuben-r1174572, accessed 04 June 2025.