Child Portrait (Peter in Sicily) (Knabenbildnis [Peter in Sizilien])

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Child Portrait (Peter in Sicily) (Knabenbildnis [Peter in Sizilien])

1925
Paintings
Oil on canvas
24 1/2 × 17 in. (62.23 × 43.18 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA (M.2013.18)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Label

Georg Schrimpf was one of the leading representatives of New Objectivity, the new realism that dominated German art during the Weimar Republic (1919–33)....
Georg Schrimpf was one of the leading representatives of New Objectivity, the new realism that dominated German art during the Weimar Republic (1919–33). Like many of his contemporaries, the former Expressionist artist turned to figuration after World War I, gaining broad recognition with his neoclassical mode of rendering the “real.” Influenced by Italian artists of the past and present (he moved to Italy in 1924), Schrimpf’s idealized portraits, still lifes, and landscapes seem to transcend time and historical circumstances. Here, the boy’s intense gaze situates him somewhere between child and adulthood. His almost grown-up face is contrasted with the physical appearance of a baby in a romper, thus rendering the image uncanny.

Wall label, 2021.
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Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.