id: 156570 accession number: 1992.277 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.277 updated: 2020-11-04 21:35:22.869000 Composition, 1924. Otto Freundlich (German, 1878-1943). Pastel; overall: 74.6 x 53.8 cm (29 3/8 x 21 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lockwood Thompson 1992.277 title: Composition title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1924 creation date earliest: 1924 creation date latest: 1924 current location: creditline: Bequest of Lockwood Thompson copyright: --- culture: Germany, 20th century technique: pastel department: Drawings collection: DR - German type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Otto Freundlich (German, 1878-1943) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 74.6 x 53.8 cm (29 3/8 x 21 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: O. F. [signed on back: Otto Freundlich / Paris 1924] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Selected Acquisitions opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00 Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993). title: Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2016-11-19T05:00:00 Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017). title: The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s opening date: 2017-04-07T00:00:00 The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris), sold to donor, 1938 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: After studying art in Germany and Italy, Freundlich visited Paris for the first time in 1908, and worked alongside avant-garde writers and artists such as Apollinaire, Braque, and Picasso in the bohemian district of Montmartre. Freundlich painted his first purely abstract works in 1911 and henceforth became committed to pioneering abstraction. His work was included in groundbreaking exhibitions before and after World War I in Berlin, Munich, and Paris. Some of his most lyrically intense pastels—such as Composition—were made in 1924 following a trip to Paris when he participated in the Salon des Indépendants. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Friedrich, Julia, ed. Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism. Cologne, Germany: Museum Ludwig; Basel, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Basel; Munich, Germany; London, England; New York, New York: Prestel, 2017. p. 141 page number: Reproduced: p. 141 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.277/1992.277_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.277/1992.277_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.277/1992.277_full.tif