Bathers (Translation)
recto: Badende (Primary Title)
recto: Bathers; verso: Girl in Forest (Former Title)
Max Pechstein, German, 1881 - 1955 (Artist)
Pechstein’s Bathers, like Otto Mueller’s Nude in a Landscape, embraces a pastoral theme. The subject may be traditional, but Pechstein’s treatment is a bold departure from the academic and Impressionist art that the Expressionists were reacting against. The light mood conveys the sense of escape associated with time spent in nature. Like his fellow Expressionists, Pechstein was influenced by French Fauvism, notable in the contrast of bright-red bathing suits against the vivid-blue water as well as in the energetic brushstrokes.
Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection, Gift of the Estate of Anne R. Fischer, and Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
Collecting for the Commonwealth Preserving for the Nation, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1919-2018, New York City: Winter Antiques Show, Park Avenue Armory, Jan. 18 – Jan. 26, 2018.
German Expressionism and France: From Van Gogh and Gauguin to the Blaue Reiter, Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 6, 2014 - Jan. 25, 2015.
German Expressionism and France: From Van Gogh and Gauguin to the Blaue Reiter, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 8 - Sept. 14, 2014.
Expressionismus und Exil: Die Sammlung Ludwig und Rosy Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt: Jewish Museum, Aug. 29 - Oct. 28, 1990, no. 41, LS 308.
German Expressionist Art: Selections from the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection, Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 13 - Mar. 8, 1987, no. 199.
German Expressionism and France: From Van Gogh and Gauguin to the Blaue Reiter, Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 6, 2014 - Jan. 25, 2015.
German Expressionism and France: From Van Gogh and Gauguin to the Blaue Reiter, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 8 - Sept. 14, 2014.
Expressionismus und Exil: Die Sammlung Ludwig und Rosy Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt: Jewish Museum, Aug. 29 - Oct. 28, 1990, no. 41, LS 308.
German Expressionist Art: Selections from the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection, Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 13 - Mar. 8, 1987, no. 199.
By 1922, Ludwig Fischer [1860-1922] and Rosy Fischer [1869-1926], Frankfurt am Main, Germany; [1] By 1926, Ernst Fischer [1896-1981] and Anne Fischer [1902-2008], Frankfurt am Main, Germany, by inheritance; [2] May 2009, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, by bequest of Anne R. Fischer, 2009. [3]
[1] Ludwig and Rosy Fischer were art collectors in Frankfurt, Germany, who primarily collected contemporary German art between 1905 and 1925 at their home on Mendelssohnstrasse 73, Frankfurt am Main. Ludwig Fischer died on April 25, 1922. The Fischers acquired many of their works from the Ludwig Schames Gallery. Pechstein showed in 1921 at Schames; however, due to lack of illustrations in the sales catalogues, and generalized titles, it is difficult to determine an exact date of acquisition.
Rosy died on February 27, 1926, while traveling in North Africa. (See Brandt, Fredrick R. German Expressionist Art: Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection, Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1987, pp. 1 - 11).
[2] In 1926, the Fischer collection was divided equally between Ludwig and Rosy Fischer's sons, Max Fischer (1893-1954) and Ernst Fischer (1896 – 1981). In 1934, Ernst and Anne Fischer fled Germany to the United States with their part of the collection, first to Rochester, New York and then settled in Richmond, Virginia in 1935. (See Brandt, 1987, pp. 1 -11.)
[3] Information in VMFA Curatorial and Registration files.
[1] Ludwig and Rosy Fischer were art collectors in Frankfurt, Germany, who primarily collected contemporary German art between 1905 and 1925 at their home on Mendelssohnstrasse 73, Frankfurt am Main. Ludwig Fischer died on April 25, 1922. The Fischers acquired many of their works from the Ludwig Schames Gallery. Pechstein showed in 1921 at Schames; however, due to lack of illustrations in the sales catalogues, and generalized titles, it is difficult to determine an exact date of acquisition.
Rosy died on February 27, 1926, while traveling in North Africa. (See Brandt, Fredrick R. German Expressionist Art: Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection, Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1987, pp. 1 - 11).
[2] In 1926, the Fischer collection was divided equally between Ludwig and Rosy Fischer's sons, Max Fischer (1893-1954) and Ernst Fischer (1896 – 1981). In 1934, Ernst and Anne Fischer fled Germany to the United States with their part of the collection, first to Rochester, New York and then settled in Richmond, Virginia in 1935. (See Brandt, 1987, pp. 1 -11.)
[3] Information in VMFA Curatorial and Registration files.
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