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Street Scene, 1920

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
87×116 cm

Artists

  • Arnold Clementschitsch

    (Villach 1887‒1970 Villach)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment

Street scenes hold a special position in the early oeuvre of Carinthian painter Arnold Clementschitsch (1887–1970). Sketchily and with dynamic application of paint, he composed snapshots of urban life from memory or impressions he had previously gathered in Vienna, Munich, or Lemberg (today Lviv, Ukraine). In this picture of 1920, he constructed with thick strokes of dark color an architectural setting in which the protagonists, male and female, make their appearance like on a stage. They are portrayed in an expressive manner with clusters of densified strokes, partial contouring, and color accents and stand emblematically for the urban life of a time impacted by upheavals and innovations. “The city is as interchangeable as is the figure in it, to which it provides a backdrop with its boulevards, shop windows, and lights.” 1

  1. Arnulf Rohsmann, “Arnold Clementschitsch – die Ikonografie der Straße”, in Arnold Clementschitsch: Der Maler exh. cat. Carinthian State Gallery, Dec 2,1987–Jan 31, 1988 (Klagenfurt/Graz, 1988), p. 7. ↩︎

MS, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Arnold Clementschitsch
Title
Street Scene
Date
1920
Art movement
Impressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
87×116 cm
Signature
Signed and dated lower right: Clementschitsch 1920
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 448
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords
city/villagestreetstrolling

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Galerie Würthle, Wien (vor 1957); (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (nach 1966-1994); (2)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Leopoldine Springschitz, Arnold Clementschitsch, Klagenfurt 1957
  2. Künstlerhaus Graz, Katalog zu „Österreichische Malerei von 1908 bis 1938“, Graz 1966, Nr. 14

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