Scherzo TheMET(6)
Week 9 The Dance (1141-1145) 11/08 – 11/13/2020 ID 1144
Otto Friedrich Austrian, Raab 1862 – 1937 Vienna
Scherzo , 1913
Tempera on canvas
Lithe and playful, these young women embody the spirited tempo suggested by the work’s title, Scherzo. Friedrich painted this scene as part of a series of five canvases in which nude figures evoke different musical rhythms. Exhibited in its own room a the Vienna Secession in 1913, the cycle sparked appreciation from an unexpected quarter. The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky praised the “nebulous and touching children’s bodies, supple adolescent bodies …[which] inspire the viewer with …the harmony of line and color.”
Little known today, Friedrich was a founder and active member of the pioneering Secession artist’s circle, along with Gustav Klimt.
From the Placard: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
www.mutualart.com/Artist/Otto-Friedrich/90E224CEF3533E7F
www.artnet.com/artists/otto-friedrich/
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Scherzo TheMET(6)
Week 9 The Dance (1141-1145) 11/08 – 11/13/2020 ID 1144
Otto Friedrich Austrian, Raab 1862 – 1937 Vienna
Scherzo , 1913
Tempera on canvas
Lithe and playful, these young women embody the spirited tempo suggested by the work’s title, Scherzo. Friedrich painted this scene as part of a series of five canvases in which nude figures evoke different musical rhythms. Exhibited in its own room a the Vienna Secession in 1913, the cycle sparked appreciation from an unexpected quarter. The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky praised the “nebulous and touching children’s bodies, supple adolescent bodies …[which] inspire the viewer with …the harmony of line and color.”
Little known today, Friedrich was a founder and active member of the pioneering Secession artist’s circle, along with Gustav Klimt.
From the Placard: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
www.mutualart.com/Artist/Otto-Friedrich/90E224CEF3533E7F
www.artnet.com/artists/otto-friedrich/
www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/otto-friedrich-austrian-1...