The Wendelsveg

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The Wendelsveg or Der Wendelsveg in German, is an oil on canvas painting by Max Beckmann, executed in 1928 in Frankfurt am Main. It depicts a view from a local street and his housed at the Kunsthalle Kiel. [1] [2]

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Origin

Wendelsweg runs parallel to the Darmstädter Landstrasse to the south of Frankfurt am Main. The northern part is in a built-up area, the southern part leads through the Frankfurt city forest. Beckmann's apartment was located on Dielmannstraße near the northern part of the street on the Sachsenhäuser Berg shown here, before he moved to Steinhausenstraße 7 in 1926. Beckmann took as a main theme the street and the parents' house of the Schuberts, a brewery company family from Frankfurt am Main. He made the painting for the sake of Johanna Schubert, the wife and mother of the family with whom he was friends.

Description

The painting was made with oil paint on canvas. The dominant colors are white, green and brown, while the design is typically expressionist, almost cubistically distorted. The composition is dominated by the street, the Wendelsweg, which stands up like a steep white tower in the left third of the painting and directs the gaze to two pedestrians, who in the lower part are close to one another in the direction of the lower edge of the canvas, out of the field of view of the wandering viewer. Beckmann has the brewery of the Schubert family villa reduced in size to make the house appear larger. The balcony room of the villa, which cannot be seen from the street, but was of particular importance to Johanna Schubert, since all her eight sons where born there, is marked by a bright orange awning. Beckmann's signature is at the bottom right of the picture as Beckmann F. 28. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Max Beckmann, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 1983, p. 144 (German)
  2. ↑ Max Beckmann, Catalogue Raisonné der Gemälde (German)
  3. ↑ Max Beckmann, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 1983, p. 144 (German)
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