Knabe am Gartenzaun, 1949

Title

Knabe am Gartenzaun (Original Title)

Title Translation

Knave at the garden fence

Painter

• Louise Rösler

Period Produced

• 20th century

School

• abstract painting

Object Type

• painting (artwork)

Physical Description

Oil on cardboard

Material

• card

Technique

• oil

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet u, r,: Louise Rößler 49; Rückseite:
Louise Rößler "Knabe am Gartenzaun"

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Contemporary Art 1945-present

Collection

• Städtische Galerie

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

© Museum und Atelierhaus Rösler-Kröhnke, Foto: U. Edelmann

Acquisition

Acquired in 1951 as transfer of the artists' grant

Genre

• abstraction

Main Motif

• shape
• colour
• area
• movement (design element)
• line
• child

Primary

• 0 Abstract, Non-representational Art
• 41A54 fence, wall, paling
• 31D11221 boy (child between toddler and youth)
• 22C4 colours, pigments, and paints
• 49D43 prism ~ stereometry

Secondary

• 49D32 line (~ planimetry, geometry)
• 49D31 point (~ planimetry, geometry)
• 49D3212 angle