Abstraction (The Blue Mountain), 1912

ArtistChristian Rohlfs, Niendorf 1849–1938 Hagen

Oil on canvas

Dimensions without frame80,5 × 60 cm

Dimensions with frame88,5 × 68 × 8,5 cm

Status

on display, room 018.5

About the work“I don’t paint from nature,” Christian Rohlfs had declared a year before painting this picture. A generation older than most Expressionists, he still shared their quest for simplified, powerful forms. In this image, Rohlfs combined broad and narrow brushstrokes to form a mountain. The landscape and sky can only be differentiated by their structure, not by their colour. What initially appears spontaneous is in fact carefully elaborated by means of fine outlines.

AccessionAcquisition 1952

Provenance[...]; 29.12.1952 angekauft von Dr. Ernst Umrath, Höfen/Enz, Württemberg

Inventory numberM 4988

Modernism
Expressionism
Abstraction

Contact

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