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Blooming Fruit Tree Twigs in a Vase, c. 1900

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
59.2×32.9 cm

Artists

  • Marie Egner

    (Radkersburg 1850–1940 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
It is in small, inconspicuous motifs that Marie Egner (1850–1940) always discovered poetic content. Against a neutral light background and on a white tablecloth, the artist here shows blossoming fruit-tree twigs in a vase. Rendered with loose brushwork in infinitely varied shades of pink and white, the blossoms form a complementary contrast to the delicate green of the foliage and the vase. Egner’s works do not merely imitate nature. Using the subtlest color differentiations and delicate reflexes, she turns this into an atmospheric emblem of spring itself. Together with Olga Wisinger-Florian (1844–1926) and Tina Blau-Lang (1845–1916), Egner today is considered one of a triad of women painters of Austrian atmospheric impressionism and even founded her own painting school for women.

Object data

Artist/author
Title
Blooming Fruit Tree Twigs in a Vase
Date
c. 1900
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.2×32.9 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 562
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Meisterwerke Leopold Museum, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Köln 2018.
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