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Fire in the Village. Study III, c. 1888
Fire in the Village. Study III
c. 1888
Oil on canvas
22.8×33.8 cm
Artists
- Theodor von Hörmann
(Imst 1840–1895 Graz)
Currently on display at OG4
In this painting, created around 1888, the Austrian artist Theodor von Hörmann (1840–1895) captured a dramatic scene: A panic-stricken crowd of people is running towards a burning village. Armed with sticks, the figures molded in hues of blue and red, seem to be hurrying to help the villagers. Using broad brushstrokes, the artist only hinted at the events and availed himself of an unusual fleetingness in his execution. It is quite possible that Hörmann, who lived in Paris from 1886, would have experienced the village fire first-hand during his travels through France and would have later transferred the motif into an allegory of destruction and transience.
Object data
- Artist/author
- Theodor von Hörmann
- Title
- Fire in the Village. Study III
- Date
- c. 1888
- Art movement
- Impressionism, Atmospheric Impressionism
- Category
- Painting
- Material/technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 22.8×33.8 cm
- Signature
- Lower right: Estate stamp
- Credit line
- Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 238
- 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.285
- Keywords
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