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Landscape with Wall, 1930

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Bildrecht,
Vienna 2022
Oil on canvas
60×70.1 cm

Artists

  • Josef Dobrowsky

    (Karlovy Vary 1889–1964 Tullnerbach)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Landscape with Wall of 1930 is a particularly outstanding milestone in Josef Dobrowsky’s (1889–1964) exploration of and approximation to New Objectivity. The wall with its two black portals opening top the unknown is reminiscent of a film set and look like put together from pieces of flat cardboard. With their very reduced depiction, the surfaces appear smooth. The almost black branches of a leafless tree segment a green area in the background which brings to mind a deciduous forest. The abstracted exploration of shape and color and the radical composition do not represent any existing real-life world btu establish a parallel reality. Like in numerous work before and after, e.g. in Landscape with Aggstein Castle Ruin, Dobrowsky keeps using the menace of an approaching storm as an atmospheric element.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Josef Dobrowsky
Title
Landscape with Wall
Date
1930
Art movement
Expressionism, New Objectivity
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60×70.1 cm
Signature
Signed and dated lower left: Dobrowsky 1930
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 28
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994)

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