Maximilian Kurzweil (Bisenz 1867-1916 Wien) Lot n° 3

(Bzenec 1867–1916 Vienna) “Arbe (Rab)”, c. 1910, oil on canvas, 70 x 80 cm, framed On the reverse in pencil on the canvas: “97 C. J. Wawra” On 16 October 1918 the artistic estate of Max Kurzweil was auctioned at C. J. Wawra in the 252nd Kunstauktion - in the below mentioned literature there is nothing indicated under this lot. Full-page colour illustration and listed in: Fritz Novotny - Hubert Adolph, Max Kurzweil. Ein Maler der Wiener Sezession, Verlag Jugend & Volk, 1969, plate 38, cat. no. 100 Provenance: Sale C. J. Wawra, Vienna, 1897 Art dealer Ferdinand Spany, Vienna Acquired from the above in 1971 ...Around 1900 he created two large format paintings, which have been considered major works in his oeuvre for some time, as they represent two sides of his practice. One is the portrait of the artist’s wife on the bank of a forest pond near Pont-Aven (fig. 7). In this forest in the twilight, it is no longer a matter of explicit light painting in the Impressionist style, rather, here it is the colours themselves that become an expression of the light and mood. The shade that characterises the picture is no longer that of older paintings, in which a colour tone of its own dominates, nor is it the fundamentally neutral, unifying shadow of traditional chiaroscuro. Everything, how-ever, is still restrained, even the accentuation in the composition of the stretched frame. From the aforementioned literature by Fritz Novotny / Hubert Adolph