Fritz Overbeck - Sommerwolken II (Summer clouds II), 1904

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Oil on canvas

95 x 151 cm / framed 122 x 177 cm
37 x 59 inch / framed 48 x 69 inch

Signed bottom left "F. Overbeck"
Cat.- Rais. N° 1904/7 with reproduction on page 47
 

– with handmade craftman’s frame –

N 9356

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Expertise:

Expertise Dr. Katja Pourshirazi from January 22, 2019, Overbeck-Museum, Bremen

Provenance:

1909 April/Mai Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Bremen und Verkauf an einen Direktor C. Jantzen, Bremen

1928 oder später vermutlich Verkauf oder Schenkung des Bildes an die Bildhauerin Marieluise (Marlo) Blaum, Bremen (Rückseitig auf dem Keilrahmen mit Bleistift geschrieben: Marlo zum 15/VII 1928). Es gibt einen Brief im Overbeck Museum von Frau Blaum an Hermine Overbeck-Rohte aus dem Jahr 1933, dass sie die Malerin besucht hatte. Sie spricht sehr begeistert von der Kunst Fritz Overbecks.1963 Sophie Gerdes, Bremen (nach dem Tod von Frau Blaum, laut Testament) (Auskunft von Katja Pourshirazi vom 10.2.2021)

1977 Angebot des Bildes im Graphischen Kabinett, Bremen, und Verkauf an eine Familie Schmidt, Bremen

2000 Verkauf an A. Karstedt (Privatbesitz)

Galerie Luzian, Berlin

Literature:

Sigrid Weltge-Wortmann, Die ersten Maler in Worpswede, Worpswede 1979, mit farbiger Ab. S. 65

Fritz Overbeck 1869–1909. Ich bin nicht sentimental, Ausst.-Kat. Overbeck-Museum, Bremen 2009, Ostfildern 2009, Katatalog Nr. 42 mit farbiger Abbildung.

Catalogue raisonné:

Fritz Overbeck. Werkverzeichnis. Die Gemälde auf Leinwand, 2008, hrsg. von Freunde der Stiftung Fritz und Hermine Overbeck, Bremen 2008, Nr. 1904/7 mit Abbildung Seite 47

Exhibitions:

Keller und Reiner, 1904 (kein Ausstellungstitel)

Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen 1909 laut Frau Dr. Pourshirazi vermutlich ausgestellt und verkauft

Fritz Overbeck 1869–1909. Ich bin nicht sentimental, Overbeck-Museum, Bremen, 2009, Kat. 42 mit farbiger Abb.

Essen, Galerie Neher, Frühjahr 2020. Kunst aus dem 20. Jahrhundert, Katalog mit farbigen Abb. S. 15

Essen, Galerie Neher, Herbst-Winter 2022/2023, Katalog mit farbiger Abb. S. 7

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About the work

Fritz Overbeck had already lived in Worpswede for ten years when he painted “Sommerwolken II” and had grown famous with his representations of the northern German landscape. The unobstructed view extending to the horizon and the high sky with animated clouds were the central motifs of many of his works.
At first glance, the painting impresses with its strong colour chord of clear blue and white in the sky and brilliant yellow and dark green on the ground. The line of the horizon is only interrupted by a row of trees that give the painting its rhythm. Noteworthy is the use of the diagonals: not only the field of corn in the foreground, represented as a foreshortened rhomboid, defines the composition – two conspicuously geometric cloud sections in the top corners of the painting take up the diagonal form and in doing so encase the painting in a rhomboid frame. This lends it a cohesive, thoroughly composed form and radiates a sublime sense of calm and proportion.
That Fritz Overbeck struggled with the designing of this painting and only incorporated the structuring diagonals into the work in a second step can be derived from a letter to his wife, Hermine Overbeck-Rohte. On 14 August 1904, he wrote to her about “the cornfield with large, white clouds, which I began in the winter, but which never got further than a boring stage at the time. Now I have ‘improved’ it, meaning made it more interesting”.
Thanks to its pronounced composition and brilliant colouring, “Sommerwolken II” is considered one of the important paintings on canvas by Overbeck from his time in Worpswede, and at the same time marks the transition to a new creative phase of the artist: only one year after the painting was completed, Overbeck left Worpswede and settled in the north of Bremen on the Schönebecker Aue (a stream), where he continued to occupy himself with the motif of sun-drenched landscapes.
(Katja Pourshirazi)

Text authored and provided by Katja Pourshirazi

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Fritz Overbeck, Summer clouds II, 1904, 95 x 151 cm / framed 122 x 177 cm, N 9356
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