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 |
Gustave De Smet
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VIAF
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| Title | Interior or Seated Woman at the Window |
| Date | 1918 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Medium and support | linocuts (prints) AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: Gust De Smet. |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | linocuts (prints) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1989-D |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Patrick Derom Gallery Brussels 1989-07-12 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1989-D |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3656/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25I
city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions
Iconclass
25I1 city-view in general; 'veduta' Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass 41A14 urban housing Iconclass 41A2 interior of the house Iconclass 41A33 window Iconclass 41A3321 closed window Iconclass 41A421 curtains Iconclass 41A6711 flowers in a vase Iconclass 41A711 table Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Expressionist (style)
AAT
Modernist AAT |
| Gust. De Smet : Kroniek - Kunsthistorische analyse ; De ontwikkeling van een Vlaams kunstenaar tussen 1891 en 1943 in relatie tot de nationale en internationale vernieuwing in de schilderkunst ; Met een beschrijvende, volledig geïllustreerde catalogus van zijn schilderijen, tekeningen en grafisch werk / Piet Boyens. - Antwerpen : Mercatorfonds, 1989 (nr. 495) |
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