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Village Scene with Brick Wall, 1931

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Bildrecht,
Vienna 2022
Oil on canvas
58×77.4 cm

Artists

  • Josef Dobrowsky

    (Karlovy Vary 1889–1964 Tullnerbach)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Somber gray clouds darken the sky. With unreal intensity, the red of an unplastered brick wall and the light-green yet sparse vegetation break through the eerie atmosphere of the brewing storm in this village that looks like a ghost town. Strictly demarcated color areas and unstructured surfaces shape this 1931 Village Scene with Brick Wall, which appears like an empty theatrical scenery. The impression of spatial depth is created by converging lines rather than shadows conveying three-dimensionality. Already one year earlier, Josef Dobrowsky (1889–1964) had begun to try his hand at New Objectivity by using similar stylistic devices in Landscape with Wall.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Josef Dobrowsky
Title
Village Scene with Brick Wall
Date
1931
Art movement
Expressionism, New Objectivity
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
58×77.4 cm
Signature
Signed and dated lower right: Dobrowsky 1931
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 24
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Galerie Würthle, Wien (1979);
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1979-1994); (1)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994).

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Galerie Würthle, Rechnung vom 04.07.1979

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