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High Mountain Motif. Study for the painting “The Großer Geiger (Venediger Group, 2nd Version)”, 1938

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Pencil on paper
41.3×30.4 cm

Artists

  • Franz Sedlacek

    (Wrocław 1891, 1945 missing in Poland)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Snow-covered landscapes, in various executions, are a recurring theme in the oeuvre of Franz Sedlacek (1891, missing since 1945). These range from oil paintings created in the style of New Objectivity and reminiscent of wimmelpictures, such as Winter in the City, to studies whose sharp details almost exceed the natural motif, like the 1938 work High Mountain Motif. Study for the painting “The Großer Geiger (Venediger Group, 2nd Version)”. Using pencil on paper, he explored the three-dimensional qualities of the achromatic shade of white to forge voluminous snow masses, with the fanned out pieces of rock, rendered in delicate nuances of gray, jutting out from below.

RR, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Franz Sedlacek
Title
High Mountain Motif. Study for the painting “The Großer Geiger (Venediger Group, 2nd Version)”
Date
1938
Art movement
Naturalism I Realism, Magic Realism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
41.3×30.4 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 1939
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Linie und Form. 100 Meisterzeichnungen aus der Sammlung Leopold, hrsg. von Franz Smola/Fritz Koreny, Wien 2014 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 23.05.2014–20.10.2014).
Keywords
mountainsmountain-range/snow peakssnowlandscape

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Provenance

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

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mountainsmountain-range/snow peakssnowlandscape

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