94. Landscape of Giverny

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94. Landscape of Giverny

Samuel Mützner

1884, Bucureşti - 1959, Bucureşti

Estimate:

EUR 15.000 - 25.000

Sold

EUR 18.500

References

ANDREESCU, Viorica, „Samuel Mützner”, Ed. Meridiane, București, 1974. MARIAN, Rodica, „Samuel Mützner”, Ed. Antet, București, 2005.

oil on canvas, 44 x 74.5 cm, 44 Ã 74,5 cm, signed bottom right, with red, "S. MUTZNER"

Research information

The artwork participated in the exhibition "Samuel Mutzner Ã®n colecÈii bucureÈtene" ("Samuel Mutzner in Bucharest collections"), Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, 2001. The artwork is reproduced in the monography "Samuel MÃ¼tzner", Rodica Marian, Antet Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005, at p. 50, under the title "Plugar la Giverny" ("Plowing at Giverny").

After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1900 - 1902), the artist Samuel Mützner went to Paris, where he enrolled at the Académie Julian in the class of Professor Jean Paul Laurens. In addition to his studies at the academy, the artist spent his time in museums, making copies of the grand masters (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and Frans Hals), as well as travelling around Paris, looking for landscapes. He stopped for two years at Giverny par Vernon, the home of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, who had been living here since 1883, where his belief in light and colour intensified considerably. An innovation of his creation was the approach to a new working technique - pointillism, perseveringly used as part of the plein air painting, which he tackles during these years. The chosen motifs were taken from the surrounding natural scenery - the village captured at different times of the day, the church, the haystacks, the poplar trees - drawing near, in terms of the technique, the limited range of colours, as well as the solidity of shapes and volumes, to the new trend of the time - neo-impressionism, still in its infancy. The works created in France were also the object of his first personal exhibition in the country, held in 1909 at the Romanian Athenaeum, received with praise by art lovers and art chroniclers. (G.M.)

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