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Inner Forest, 1914

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
61×73 cm

Artists

  • Anton Faistauer

    (St. Martin near Lofer 1887–1930 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Timeless, Anton Faistauer’s (1887–1930) Inner Forest of 1914 quietly unfolds itself. Incident sunlight makes for a contrast-rich yet harmonious play of light and shadow, steeping the forest path in warming light colors and a sense of blithe carefreeness in a time of greatest worry. At the outbreak of the First World War, Anton Faistauer, too, feared he would have to leave his family for frontline military service. Against this background, the forest, quietly resting in itself like on almost any other summer afternoon, appears as an almost utopian idyl.

RR, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Anton Faistauer
Title
Inner Forest
Alternative title
Forest Path in Sunlight
Date
1914
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61×73 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 361
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Franz Fuhrmann: Anton Faistauer 1887–1930 mit dem Werkvezeichnis der Gemälde, Salzburg 1972.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Fuhrmann 1972: 98
Keywords
landscape representationforest/woodforest path

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Auktion: 17. - 20.06.1969, Dorotheum Wien, 584. Auktion, Los Nr. 280;
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1969-1994); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Datenbank der LMPS, Provenienz Stammdaten (alt)

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landscape representationforest/woodforest path

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