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The Amati, 1932

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Color lithograph on paper
100.1×69.9 cm

Artists

  • Max Oppenheimer

    (Vienna 1885–1954 New York)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Hands served Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954) – also known as MOPP – as descriptive pictorial elements that are able to convey stories. In the 1932 work The Amati they even appear in lieu of two people as carriers of expression. The two people that the hands belong to are hidden in the ensemble under pages of sheet music and gray-green fabric, and are thus inseparably linked. MOPP’s interest in hands, and particularly in hands making music, is evident from the number of times that he used them as means of communication, for instance in his Portrait of Tilla Durieux. From 1914, especially, MOPP began to intently explore music and its depiction in the visual arts, and created a multi-faceted body of works dedicated to the visualization of music-making.

RR, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Max Oppenheimer
Title
The Amati
Date
1932
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Color lithograph on paper
Dimensions
100.1×69.9 cm
Signature
Signed and dated in the stone lower center: MOPP.32; numbered and signed lower left: 64/100 MOPP.
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 3043
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Max Oppenheimer. Expressionist der ersten Stunde, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2023 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 06.10.2023 –25.02.2024).
  • Michael Pabst: Max Oppenheimer. Verzeichnis der Druckgrafik, München 1993.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Pabst 1993: L 22
Keywords
paper (writing material)string instrumentmaking music (musician with instrument)postures/gestures of arms and hands

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Auktion: 19.12.1979, Karl & Faber, München;
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1979-1994); (1)
Leopold Museum Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Rechnung vom 19.12.1979

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paper (writing material)string instrumentmaking music (musician with instrument)postures/gestures of arms and hands