With loose, gestural brushstrokes and a haunting dark palette that obscures precise definition of forms, the German Expressionist painter Gabriele Münter transforms this collection of domestic objects—including a group of Bavarian folk religious figurines, a green bird statuette, a blue vase with flowers and a large white vessel with foliage—into a moment of somber contemplation. The still-life genre, represented elsewhere in this gallery, became an exciting source of inspiration for early 20th-century avant-garde artists who used it to devise new, increasingly fragmented modes of representation. For Münter, it was a theme to which she would continuously return, offering a chance to explore interiority and subjectivity as well as the aesthetic possibilities of personal, everyday items.
Details
- Artist Name: Gabriele Münter (German, 1877-1962)
- Title: Dark Still Life with Small Figures
- Date: 1910
- Medium: Oil on board
- Dimensions: 17-3/4 x 23-3/4 in. (45.1 x 60.3 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Gift of B. Gerald Cantor
- Accession Number: P.1969.104
- Copyright: © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Reproduction, including downloading of ARS works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object Information
B. Gerald Cantor, Beverly Hills, gift 1969 to;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1969-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 1975.
Gabriele Münter
- Paul Cassirer (Gallery), 1910 to 1910
Der Sturm
- Copenhagen, 1913 to 1913
Neuer Kunstsalon
- Munich, 1913 to 1913
Der Blaue Reiter
- Helsingfors, 1914 to 1914
- Trondjem, 1914 to 1914
- Gotenberg, 1914 to 1914
- Stockholm University Press, 1914 to 1914
- Copenhagen, 1914 to 1914
Gabriele Münter
- Haus am Lutzowplatz, 1957 to 1957
Gabriele Münter
- London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., 1957 to 1957
Gabriele Münter
- Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1960 to 1960
Gabriele Münter: Oil Paintings 1903-1937
- London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., 1960-09 to 1960-10
Gabriele Münter
- Mannheim, Kunsthalle, 1961 to 1961
Gabriele Münter
- Munich, Stadtische Galerie, 1962 to 1962
Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millennium
- The Albuquerque Museum, 1999-09-19 to 2000-01-02
Recent Acquisitions, 1969
- Pasadena Art Museum, 1969-11-24 to 1970-01-18
- Pasadena Art Museum, Recent Acquisitions 1969, 1969, no. 13 p. 10
- The Albuquerque Museum, Silent Things, Secret Things: Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millenium, 1999, pl. 41 pp. 104-105
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