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A Morning by the Pond, 1899

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
75.2×75.2×2.2 cm

Artists

  • Gustav Klimt

    (Baumgarten near Vienna/Vienna 1862–1918 Vienna)

Currently on display at OG4
The first landscape created in a square format, this painting occupies a key role in Gustav Klimt’s (1862–1918) oeuvre. He painted it in 1899 in Eglsee during a summer sojourn he enjoyed with the Flöge family in Golling near Hallein in Salzburg. The delicate light green tones of the shoreline and the bluish-pink reflections of light on the water surface herald Klimt’s penchant for pastel colors broken with white, and for nuanced, muted secondary colors which would become so characteristic for his palette after 1900.

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Object data

Artist/author
  • Gustav Klimt
Title
A Morning by the Pond
Date
1899
Art movement
Art Nouveau
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.2×75.2×2.2 cm
Signature
Signed lower left: GUSTAV KLIMT
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 2007
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
  • Gustav Klimt. Jahrhundertkünstler, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger/Sandra Tretter, Wien 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 22.06.2018–04.11.2018).
  • Gustav Klimt. Die Sammlung im Leopold Museum, hrsg. von Tobias G. Natter/Elisabeth Leopold, Ostfildern 2013 (Bestandskatalog des Leopold Museum: Band 1).
  • Klimt persönlich. Bilder - Briefe - Einblicke, hrsg. von Tobias G. Natter/Franz Smola, Wien 2012 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 24.02.2012–27.08.2012).
  • Tobias Natter: Gustav Klimt, Köln 2012.
  • Alfred Weidinger/Michaela Seiser u.a.: Gustav Klimt, München u.a. 2007.
  • Fritz Novotny/Johannes Dobai: Gustav Klimt, Salzburg 1967.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Natter 2012: 122
  • Weidinger/Seiser/Winkler 2007: 135
  • Novotny/Dobai 1967: 108
Keywords
landscape depictionlandscapepondtreewaveGolling bei Halleincloudsedge of the wood

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Galerie Miethke, Wien (05.10.1911);
Hermine Lasus, Wien (1912-1954);
Marko Danilowatz, Wien (1954-1971);
Bibiane Preisinger, geb. Danilowatz, Wien (1971-1975);
George McGuire und Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1975); (1)
Martin Ackermann, London (Hälfteanteil des George McQuire, 1976);
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1976-1994); (2)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Sonja Niederacher, Gustav Klimt. Ein Morgen am Teiche, Dossier vom 31.12.2018.
  2. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Bill of Sale vom 28.09.1976; Diethard Leopold, Rudolf Leopold - Kunstsammler, Wien 2003, S. 208-210.

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