Ernst MORGENTHALER (* 1887, † 1962) – Tree – Oil Painting from 1929

Description

Type: painting

Painter: Ernst Morgenthaler (* 1887, † 1962)

Object: oil painting

Material: oil on wooden panel

Dimensions: height: 25.9 cm, width: 21 cm; with frame: height: 45.5 cm, width: 40.8 cm

Year of production: 1929

Condition: the frame is bumped, partially missing.

Signature: EM

Details:
It is the mixture of sketchy representation and painting that often makes Ernst Morgenthaler’s pictures so special. The oil painting with the tree here has other special features. It dates from 1929 and thus from a time when Morgenthaler was intensively engaged in deepening his painting in Paris.

Although Morgenthaler was one of the most important figurative painters in Switzerland at the time, he sometimes only hints at the figurative in the painting of the tree. The abstract-looking parts of the picture are also special.