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Girl Crossing a Mountain Torrent, 1880/82

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
89×63.5 cm

Artists

  • Anton Romako

    (Vienna 1832–1889 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The work Girl, Crossing a Mountain Torrent by Anton Romako (1832–1889) is doubtlessly one of his masterpieces. The balancing act of a young girl, crossing a roaring mountain torrent on two rickety tree trunks, takes beholders right to the limit of bearable tension. The wild nature into which the composition is embedded emphasizes the danger of the venture. We might say that the depiction manifests the conflict of the inner self. Romako thus opened up new paths in art, allowing dreams and the unconscious, with its fears and longings, to come to the surface.

AS, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Anton Romako
Title
Girl Crossing a Mountain Torrent
Date
1880/82
Art movement
Naturalism I Realism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
89×63.5 cm
Signature
Signed upper right: A. Romako.
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 167
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Anton Romako. Beginn der Moderne, hrsg. von Marianne Hussl-Hörmann/Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Köln 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.04.2018–18.06.2018).
  • Anton Romako. Beginn der Moderne, hrsg. von Marianne Hussl-Hörmann/Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Köln 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.04.2018–18.06.2018).
  • Fritz Novotny: Der Maler Anton Romako 1832–1889, Wien/München 1954.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Reiter 2010: 474
  • Novotny 1954: 291
Keywords
woman/girlwaterfallbrookbridgerocksNature

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Familie Satzger von Bálványos, Wien;
Rosalia Maria von Ernest, geb. Satzger von Bálványos (o.D.)
Kunsthandlung Neumann, Wien; (1)
Privatbesitz, Wien (1954); (2)
Auktion: 19.-27.03.1985, Dorotheum Wien, 647. Kunstauktion, Nr. 511, Tafel 48
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1985-1994);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Cornelia Reiter, Anton Romako. Pionier und Außenseiter der Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Monografie mit Werkverzeichnis, Weitra 2010, S. 241, Nr. 474 sowie Eintrag auf www.myheritage.at zu Rosalia Maria von Ernest, geb. Satzger von Bálványos (abgefragt: März 2018).
  2. Fritz Novotny, Der Maler Anton Romako. 1832-1889, Wien u. München 1954, S. 96, Nr. 291

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