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Am Meer (Moderne Iphigenie)
On the Seashore (Modern Iphigenia)
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On the Seashore (Modern Iphigenia), 1875

ArtistAnselm Feuerbach, Speyer 1829–1880 Venezia
Oil on canvas
Dimensions without frame197 × 113,5 cm
Dimensions with frame244 × 168 cm
Status
on display, room 013
About the workAnd I stand on the shore for long days, seeking the land of the Greeks with my soul,” declares Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Iphigenia in his play of the same name. The painter Anselm Feuerbach, who had lived in Italy for a long time, drew on this line and explored this ancient theme in three life-size paintings. Partly because of its darker colour scheme, this is the most melancholy of them all. Saved from sacrificial death, Iphigenia must serve as a lonely priestess on the island of Tauris. Feuerbach generalised this unfulfilled longing for her homeland by choosing the title “Am Meer” (On the Seashore).
AccessionAcquisition 1913
Provenance[...]; 1913 Gesellschaft zur Ergänzung der Sammlungen des städtischen Kunstmuseums Düsseldorf angekauft von der Kunsthandlung Karl Haberstock, Berlin
Inventory numberM 4126
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