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Garden with Sunflowers, 1885

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on wood
45.6×63.5 cm

Artists

  • Eugen Jettel

    (Rýmařov 1845–1901 Lussingrande)

Currently on display at OG4
Among the central motifs in the oeuvre of Eugen Jettel (1845–1901) are rural idylls. In his 1885 work Garden with Sunflowers the horizontal composition conveys a sense of summery tranquility and peacefulness. The foreground is dominated by soaring sunflowers and red geraniums rendered in trenchant colors, with a farmstead under a pale blue sky visible in the background. Though Eugen Jettel spent 20 years of his productive period in France, he is considered one of the most important Austrian Atmospheric Impressionists. Rather than joining the French Impressionist movement, Jettel, who is often dubbed the quiet poet, always remained faithful to a lyrical-realistic notion of landscape.

AGW, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Eugen Jettel
Title
Garden with Sunflowers
Alternative title
Sunflowers in front of a Farmstead
Date
1885
Art movement
Atmospheric Impressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on wood
Dimensions
45.6×63.5 cm
Signature
Signed, designated and dated lower right: Eugen Jettel paris 85
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 138
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Meisterwerke Leopold Museum, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Köln 2018.
  • Leopold. Meisterwerke aus dem Leopold Museum Wien, hrsg. von Rudolf Leopold und Romana Schuler, Köln u.a. 2001.
  • Heinrich Fuchs: Eugen Jettel [Werkkatalog], Wien 1975.
Keywords
landscape representationgardensunflowertreecontainer of ceramics: jar/jug/vaseagricultureroof

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris (vor 1907);
Auktion: 16.12.1907, Kunsthandlung Anton Stöckl, Wien, Katalog von Original-Gemälden moderner Meister aus der Kollektion Ch. Sedelmeyer in Paris, Los Nr. 24; (1)
Auktion: 20.10.1932, Dorotheum Wien, 418. Kunstauktion, Los Nr. 74; (2)
Oskar Neumann, Wien (vor 1935-1938); (3)
Therese Neumann, Wien (1938-1949); (4)
Auktion: 17.11.1981, Dorotheum Wien, 634. Kunstauktion, Los Nr. 84; (5)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1981-1994);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994)

  1. Heinrich Fuchs, Eugen Jettel, Wien 1975, S. 162, Nr. 250; Kunsthandlung Anton Stöckl, Katalog von Original-Gemälden moderner Meister aus der Kollektion Ch. Sedelmeyer in Paris, Wien 1907, S. 30, Nr. 24, Abb. S. 31
  2. Dorotheum Wien, Katalog zur 418. Kunstauktion, Wien 1932, S. 11, Abb. Taf. 19
  3. Wiener Secession, Kaiser Franz Joseph Ausstellung. Bildende Kunst der Francisco-Josephinischen Epoche, Wien 1935, S. 14, Nr. 59: „Garten mit Sonnenblumen“
  4. Sonja Niederacher, Dossier Oskar Neumann und Therese Neumann, 21.12.2009, S. 7; Archiv des Wiener Künstlerhauses, Anmeldungen zur Jubiläumsausstellung 1948, Anmeldebogen Therese Neumann; Archiv des Wiener Künstlerhauses, Einlaufbauch 1948, Position Nr. 1116
  5. Dorotheum Wien, Katalog zur 634. Kunstauktion, Wien 1981, S. 26, Abb. Taf. 47

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