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1925, Max Pechstein, Irises in the Evening Shadows [Iris im Abendschatten] -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: This flower painting was probably executed in Berlin, where Pechstein lived and worked from 1908 onwards. In those years he strove for public recognition and an improvement of his financial situation. In 1923 he left the radical 'November Group' for the more moderate Berlin Secession. The painting illustrates how by the early 1920s the wild 'Brücke' painter had almost metamorphosed into a conventional Secessionist. Both the composition and the colours indeed recall the style of Impressionism and show similarities not only to Nolde's own flower pictures from same period, but also to the iris pictures from the late period of Monet, who the latter had painted in his garden at Giverny during World War I.
1925, Max Pechstein, Irises in the Evening Shadows [Iris im Abendschatten] -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: This flower painting was probably executed in Berlin, where Pechstein lived and worked from 1908 onwards. In those years he strove for public recognition and an improvement of his financial situation. In 1923 he left the radical 'November Group' for the more moderate Berlin Secession. The painting illustrates how by the early 1920s the wild 'Brücke' painter had almost metamorphosed into a conventional Secessionist. Both the composition and the colours indeed recall the style of Impressionism and show similarities not only to Nolde's own flower pictures from same period, but also to the iris pictures from the late period of Monet, who the latter had painted in his garden at Giverny during World War I.