Ruhr Area – At the Colliery, 1920
MediumWoodcut
Image dimensions25 × 24,8 cm
Sheet dimensions (unregelmäßiges Blatt)42,5 × 34,5 cm
About the work‘I was more moved by the people in this landscape of large-scale and heavy industry than by the “giants of technology”,’ said Conrad Felixmüller in 1977. The former child prodigy from Dresden had won the Saxon State Prize in 1920, but instead of travelling to the Villa Massimo art institution in Rome as was customary, he used the prize money to explore mining districts in the Ruhr and Saxony. He observed coal miners and steelworkers in their soot-blackened working environment. The portraits he subsequently created reveal his empathy with the people depicted.
AccessionGift 1986
ProvenanceBis 1986 im Nachlass des Künstlers; 1986 erworben durch Schenkung von den Söhnen des Künstlers, Titus Felixmüller und Luca Felix Müller
Inventory numberFM 1986-111
