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Tree with Houses in the Background, 1907

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
35×19.4 cm

Artists

  • Richard Gerstl

    (Vienna 1883–1908 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The year 1907 marks a shift in Richard Gerstl’s (1883–1908) oeuvre towards a gestic, expressive style of painting which he develops from his visual impressions on location. At the right edge of the vertical painting Tree with Houses in the Background, Gerstl depicts a thin tree trunk, whose upper and lower part are overlapped by the edge of the painting. This composition, in which the surface of the ground is folded up, still hints at the influence of Secessionism and Japanese woodcuts. His brushwork, however, tells a very different story. The artist sketches the meadow and the leaves of the tree in short, intense brushstrokes. Gerstl no longer differentiates between the foreground and the background, which reveals his interest in the autonomous surface texture of the color coat.

AGW, 2022

Object data

Artist/author
  • Richard Gerstl
Title
Tree with Houses in the Background
Date
1907
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
35×19.4 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 641
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Richard Gerstl. Inspiration - Vermächtnis, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger u.a., Köln 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 27.09.2019-20.01.2020).
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
  • Egon Schiele und seine Zeit. Österreichische Malerei und Zeichnung von 1900 bis 1930, hrsg. von Rudolf Leopold, München 1988(Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, 25.11.1988-19.02.1989; Kunstforum Länderbank, Wien, 14.03.1989-18.06.1989).
Keywords
landscape representationtreemeadow/pasturepart of house/building

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Richard Gerstl, Wien (1908);
August und Alois Gerstl, Wien (1908-1931); (1)
Neue Galerie, Wien (ab 1931); (2)
Msgr. Otto Mauer (bis 1954);
Galerie Würthle, Wien (1954);
Lucy Wotruba, Wien (vor 1966-1985); (3)
Nachlass Lucy Wotruba, Wien (1985-1987);
Wolfgang Duchon, Wien (ab 1987); (4)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (vor 1994);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Otto Kallir, Richard Gerstl (1883-1908). Beiträge zur Dokumentation seines Lebens und Werkes, in: Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Galerie, Jg. 18 (1974), Nr. 62, S. 125;
  2. Kallir, Gerstl, 146 u. 126f. Dr. Otto Nirenstein erstellt 1931 ein Nachlassverzeichnis, das Bild “Baumstudie” erhält die Nummer 10. Ankauf von 36 Gemälden von Alois Gerstl.
  3. Kunsthaus Zug, Karteikarte der Galerie Würthle; Katalog der Secession, Wien 1966, Nr. 46;
  4. Archiv des Leopold Museums, E-Mail Leonora Kugler (Kunsthaus Zug) an Alfred Fehringer vom 22.08.2019

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landscape representationtreemeadow/pasturepart of house/building