id:			156570
accession number:	1992.277
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.277
updated:		2021-03-27 12:16:18.350000

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
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creation date:			1924
creation date earliest:		1924
creation date latest:		1924
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creditline:			Bequest of Lockwood Thompson
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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	pastel
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - German
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Otto Freundlich (German, 1878-1943)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 74.6 x 53.8 cm (29 3/8 x 21 3/16 in.)
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	description:	paper
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	inscription:	signed lower left:  O. F. [signed on back:  Otto Freundlich / Paris 1924]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Selected Acquisitions
	opening date:   1993-02-09T05:00:00
	<i>Selected Acquisitions</i>. 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
	<i>Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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
	<i>The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris), sold to donor, 1938
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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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Friedrich, Julia, ed. <em>Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism.</em> 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
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IMAGES

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