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The Music Lover (Viktor De Knop)

  • ink, paper
  • 322 x 250 mm
  • Inv. 1989-C

Public Domain

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For the art of German Expressionism, the woodcut was as important a means of expression as painting. The technique forced artists to make powerful drawings without sensitive nuances, to make essential contrasts without colour shading. The members of the Die Brücke group in particular - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - developed the technique into an autonomous means of expression. This drawing by Frits Van den Berghe was created during his exile in the Netherlands during the First World War and show the influence of these German artists. The artist applied their planar structure, and forsook perspective and preferred a graphic directness. Van den Berghe knew the German examples from magazines such as Der Sturm and Das Kunstblatt.

Artist

Frits Van den Berghe RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ghent 1883 - Ghent 1939
painters (artists)AAT

Title The Music Lover (Viktor De Knop)
Period 20th century
Location Netherlands TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings monogram bottom right: Fv.B
Collection print room
Object type ink drawing
Inventory number 1989-C
Acquisition credit purchase
Meskens, Emile
De Pinte
1989-10-31
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1989-C
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3655/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015637 portraits AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass
31A2627 standing, leaning, sitting or lying with legs crossed Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31B6212 looking downwards Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass
41A6711 flowers in a vase Iconclass
41A721 chairs (furniture forms) Iconclass
48C733 keyboard instruments Iconclass
48C73331 grand piano Iconclass
48C78 listening to music Iconclass
61B2 historical persons Iconclass
61B2(VICTOR DE KNOP) historical person (VICTOR DE KNOP) Iconclass
School / Style Expressionist (style) AAT
Modernist AAT
Frits Van den Berghe 1883-1939 : Met een volledig geïllustreerde kritische en gedocumenteerde catalogus van de schilderijen, gouaches, tekeningen en illustraties / Piet Boyens, Patrick Derom, Gilles Marquenie. - Antwerpen : Pandora, 1999 (p. 388, nr. 248 (ill.))
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