Today

  • Exhibitions
    11:00 until 18:00
  • Collection / It's all Art?!
    11:00 until 18:00

  • Admission: 16 € / concessions 12 €

  • Children / young people under 18 : free

  • Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free

Ticket-Shop
Else Sohn-Rethel, die Gattin des Künstlers
Else Sohn-Rethel, the Artist's Wife
Kunstpalast - Horst Kolberg - ARTOTHEK

Else Sohn-Rethel, the Artist's Wife, 1837

ArtistCarl Rudolph Sohn, Düsseldorf 1845–1908 Düsseldorf
DepictedElse Sohn-Rethel, Dresden 1853–1933 Düsseldorf
Oil on canvas
Dimensions without frame106,5 × 85 × 2,5 cm
Dimensions with frame132,5 × 106 × 6 cm
Status
on display, room 014
About the workCarl Rudolph Sohn began this work shortly before he married Else Rethel in 1873. In addition to portrait sittings, he used an old photograph of his future wife as a confirmand. The painting was frequently shown in exhibitions during this period and praised by critics. The flatness of the image was considered novel. Else Sohn-Rethel – as she called herself in memory of her father, the painter Alfred Rethel – was an accomplished woman. She was a talented singer, watercolourist and was also very well connected. Her three sons became painters, while her daughter was a musician like her.
AccessionAcquisition 1929
ProvenanceBis 1929 in Familienbesitz der Nachfahren des Künstlers; 1929 angekauft von Else Sohn-Rethel, Düsseldorf
Inventory numberM 4370
Contact
sammlung@kunstpalast.de
Permalink
https://sammlung.kunstpalast.de/en/objects/415151/else-sohnrethel-die-gattin-des-kunstlers
Back
Expand
de