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Struggle, c. 1925

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Norbertine Bresslern-Roth/estate
Linocut on paper
40.1×30.2 cm

Artists

  • Norbertine Bresslern-Roth

    (Graz 1891–1978 Graz)

  • Print by the Österreichische Staatdruckerei, Vienna
  • Verlag der Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, Vienna
Unfortunately not on display at the moment
From the early 1920s, the artist Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (1891–1978) devoted herself to polychrome printing. She developed into a true master in the field. The result were impressive prints from up to six color plates. This is also evidenced in the print entitled Kampf. On a first look, the lobster with its long pincers and the tentacled octopus are reminiscent of abstract shapes. The flat color areas and the way she dispenses with spatial illusion are indicative of the artist’s closeness to Viennese Jugendstil. Bresslern-Roth was rather critical of the relationship of animals and humans and of how animals were kept in zoos; other themes that centrally informed her work are birth, motherly love, violent confrontation, hunting sand death.
As a material, linoleum was originally used as a floor covering before it was discovered by artists in the 1860s for use for a printing technique. One characteristic is the grainy-looking surface that is created in the process.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Norbertine Bresslern-Roth
  • Print by the Österreichische Staatdruckerei, Vienna
  • Verlag der Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, Vienna
Title
Struggle
Date
c. 1925
Art movement
Art Nouveau
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Linocut on paper
Dimensions
40.1×30.2 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 5781, donated by Helmut Klewan, Munich
Inventory access
Accession 2015
Selection of Reference works
  • Frauenbilder – Künstlerinnen – 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Vom Biedermeier bis zur Moderne, hrsg. von Elisabeth Leopold, Wien 2017 (Ausstellungsbroschüre, Leopold Museum, Wien, 07.07.2017–18.09.2017).
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Helmut Klewan, München (o.D.)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 2015); (1)

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Schenkungsvertrag vom 24.03.2015

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