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Peasant Children in the Wintry Beech Forest, Weßling, 1892
Peasant Children in the Wintry Beech Forest, Weßling
1892
Oil on canvas
70.6×102.4 cm
Artists
- Theodor von Hörmann
(Imst 1840–1895 Graz)
Unfortunately not on display at the moment
In the winter of 1892, Theodor von Hörmann (1840–1895) traveled to Dachau, to paint in Weßling near Lake Ammer. The rural idyll of Dachau – a popular motif with plein-air painters – inspired the artist to intensify his nature studies and to focus especially on winter depictions: The work Peasant Children in the Wintry Beech Forest shows two children carrying baskets and making their way through the fallen snow. His landscape depictions, which were invariably composed from nature, are characterized by a pastose paint application and radical colors which often resonated with critics. Hörmann’s investigations of what he saw illustrate his struggle for a new perception and for a disassociation from existing painterly norms.
Object data
- Artist/author
- Theodor von Hörmann
- Title
- Peasant Children in the Wintry Beech Forest, Weßling
- Alternative title
- Midday in the Wintry Beech Forest
- Date
- 1892
- Art movement
- Atmospheric Impressionism, Impressionism
- Category
- Painting
- Material/technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 70.6×102.4 cm
- Signature
- Signed, dated and designated lower right: Theod. v. HÖRMANN (WESSLING Dez. 92)
- Credit line
- Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 1979
- Inventory access
- Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
- Selection of Reference works
- Theodor von Hörmann. Von Paris zur Secession, hrsg. von Marianne Hussl-Hörmann/Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2016 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 29.04.2016–29.08.2016).
- Marianne Hussl-Hörmann: Theodor von Hörmann 1840-1895 Monographie mit Verzeichnis der Gemälde, Wien 2013.
- Catalogue raisonne
- Hussl-Hörmann 2013: I.378
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