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“Genius Ascending”. Study for the Painting Death at the Vienna Crematorium, 1924

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Pencil on paper
60.3×47.5 cm

Artists

  • Anton Kolig

    (Nový Jičín 1886–1950 Nötsch in the Gailtal)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The artist Anton Kolig’s (1886–1950) extensive painterly oeuvre is supplemented by graphic works on paper, some of them preparatory studies for paintings, but most of them autonomous works, whose number is estimated at around 2,500. Throughout all the periods of his oeuvre, Kolig focused almost exclusively on depictions of male nudes in the medium of drawing. What all of them have in common is that they show young, well-proportioned and powerful bodies.

Ak, 2024

Object data

Artist/author
Title
“Genius Ascending”. Study for the Painting Death at the Vienna Crematorium
Date
1924
Art movement
Nötsch Circle
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
60.3×47.5 cm
Signature
Monogrammed and dated middle left: A.K. 1924
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 896
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Anton Kolig, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Köln 2017 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 22.09.2017-08.01.2018).
Keywords
nudeman/boypostures and gestures of arms/handsposture: Beine'contrapposto', 'Standbein und Spielbein'the (nude) human figure

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Auktion: 13.06.1980, Dorotheum Wien, 628. Kunstauktion, Los Nr. 1269; (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1980-1994);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

  1. Dorotheum Wien, Katalog zur 628. Kunstauktion, Wien 1980, S. 134, Abb. Taf. 235

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nudeman/boypostures and gestures of arms/handsposture: Beine'contrapposto', 'Standbein und Spielbein'the (nude) human figure