DOI Heft:
No. 175 (October, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Rutter, Frank: A consideration of the work of Anton Mauve
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0032
Anton Mauve
The Hague, his home had been
at Laren, a picturesque old
country town fifteen miles south-
east of Amsterdam, where at the
moment of writing, a Mauve
Memorial is about to be unveiled
and an important retrospective
collection of his works is in course
of exhibition, and whither
Americans still come to paint
" Mauves," though they can no
longer scrape up an acquain-
tance with the painter.
Before attempting any analysis
of the various excellences which
"winter" (water-colour) by anton mauve render his paintings and draw-
(By peimission of Messrs. Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris) ings so admirable, I should
like to clear up one or two
work before the paint was dry. He became misconceptions, as I consider them, very prevalent
perhaps too prolific, and the strain of his extra- about the art of Anton Mauve. Following Muther
ordinary production was too great for a frame that —who, excellent critic as he is on the whole, is
had never been robust. The end came suddenly, nevertheless apt at times to let his romantic imagi-
from heart failure, while on a visit to his brother nation run away with him—it has become a com-
at Arnheim in 1888, the year of his medal at Paris monplace of criticism to speak of the "melancholy
—he had previously been medalled at Vienna, poetry," the "undertone of sadness," the "sense
Philadelphia, and Antwerp. He was only fifty, of suffering" in Mauve's paintings. To label
but his reputation was then world-wide, for his Mauve's work at large with the epithets " sad"
paintings had travelled in many lands, though the and " melancholy," seems to me an overstatement,
painter stayed in his own country. After leaving Our emotions are treacherous things, and it is easy
"milking time" (oil painting)
10
by anton mauve
The Hague, his home had been
at Laren, a picturesque old
country town fifteen miles south-
east of Amsterdam, where at the
moment of writing, a Mauve
Memorial is about to be unveiled
and an important retrospective
collection of his works is in course
of exhibition, and whither
Americans still come to paint
" Mauves," though they can no
longer scrape up an acquain-
tance with the painter.
Before attempting any analysis
of the various excellences which
"winter" (water-colour) by anton mauve render his paintings and draw-
(By peimission of Messrs. Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris) ings so admirable, I should
like to clear up one or two
work before the paint was dry. He became misconceptions, as I consider them, very prevalent
perhaps too prolific, and the strain of his extra- about the art of Anton Mauve. Following Muther
ordinary production was too great for a frame that —who, excellent critic as he is on the whole, is
had never been robust. The end came suddenly, nevertheless apt at times to let his romantic imagi-
from heart failure, while on a visit to his brother nation run away with him—it has become a com-
at Arnheim in 1888, the year of his medal at Paris monplace of criticism to speak of the "melancholy
—he had previously been medalled at Vienna, poetry," the "undertone of sadness," the "sense
Philadelphia, and Antwerp. He was only fifty, of suffering" in Mauve's paintings. To label
but his reputation was then world-wide, for his Mauve's work at large with the epithets " sad"
paintings had travelled in many lands, though the and " melancholy," seems to me an overstatement,
painter stayed in his own country. After leaving Our emotions are treacherous things, and it is easy
"milking time" (oil painting)
10
by anton mauve