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Abstract Landscape, undated

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
60.4×73.2 cm

Artists

  • Hans Böhler

    (Vienna 1884‒1961 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The wealth of his family, owners of the Böhler steel plant, afforded Hans Böhler (1884–1961) not only the financial freedom to pursue his work as a painter but also the possibility to embark on numerous travels. From 1910, he visited Asia as well as North and South America, worked in various European countries and lived in Switzerland and the US. However, he invariably returned to his hometown of Vienna. Many of his landscapes were inspired by his travel impressions. In his harmonious compositions, he increasingly dispensed with outlines, and instead defined architecture and nature by means of planes of lively colors. The highly abstracted landscapes, full of tranquil elegance, glow in an interplay of warm hues and contrasting shadows, as if illuminated by the setting evening sun.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Hans Böhler
Title
Abstract Landscape
Date
undated
Art movement
(Color-)Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60.4×73.2 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 605
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

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