Description & Technical information

Unframed: H 80 cm, W 100.5 cm
Framed: H 87 cm, W 107 cm

This picture is probably one of the first paintings by Friedrich Beck to be shown in a Hagenbund exhibition, since the majority of "Jungbund" members who exhibited for the first time in 1905/06 at Zedlitzhalle were not members of the Hagenbund before 1907.

Date:  1907
Period:  20th century
Origin:  Vienna
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signature: Signed and dated on lower right: F. Beck 1907
verso paper labels of the "Hagenbund": lower right and left inscribed 38 – H 38, Wolken (clouds), unverkäuflich (not for sale), Öhl – 3278, 1907; upper left inscribed 20 – Wolken (clouds), verkäuflich (for sale), 20 – 3402, 1923

Dimensions: 80 x 100.5 cm (31¹/₂ x 39⁵/₈ inches)
Literature: G. Tobias Natter, Der Hagenbund. Zur Stellung einer Wiener Künstlervereinigung, in: G. Tobias Natter (ed.), Die verlorene Moderne. Der Künstlerbund Hagen 1900–1938, exhibition of Österreichische Galerie Belvedere at Schloss Halbturn/Burgenland, Vienna, 1993, pp. 9–27
Categories: Paintings, Drawings & Prints