Die Mutter der Künstlerin (The Artist's Mother), 1907
Broncia Koller-Pinell
Oil on canvas
Set against a flat gold background and seated in a wicker chair with a geometric design, possibly created by the architect and designer Josef Hoffmann, a woman bends over her sewing. Koller-Pinell depicts her mother engaged in traditional women's work but in a way that is entirely modern. As a painter, Koller-Pinell was not only a member of the Vienna Secession but she was a significant patron of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), notably the modernist designs of Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, both of whom she engaged to decorate her home.*
From the exhibition
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
(March – August 2023)
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
[*National Gallery]
Taken in the National Gallery
Die Mutter der Künstlerin (The Artist's Mother), 1907
Broncia Koller-Pinell
Oil on canvas
Set against a flat gold background and seated in a wicker chair with a geometric design, possibly created by the architect and designer Josef Hoffmann, a woman bends over her sewing. Koller-Pinell depicts her mother engaged in traditional women's work but in a way that is entirely modern. As a painter, Koller-Pinell was not only a member of the Vienna Secession but she was a significant patron of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), notably the modernist designs of Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, both of whom she engaged to decorate her home.*
From the exhibition
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
(March – August 2023)
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction.
[*National Gallery]
Taken in the National Gallery