1514
„Self-portrait“
1841
20 x 15,8 cm
oil on panel; framed
signed and dated on the lower right: Waldmüller / 1841
exhibition labels on the reverse: Waldmüller-Ausstellung Salzburg and Künstlerhaus Vienna: 1927/2352, label with the no. 4929
Provenance
Dr. August Heymann (1857-1937), Vienna;
private property, Austria
Exhibition
1927 Vienna, Österreichische Porträt-Ausstellung, no. 93
1930 Vienna, Hagenbund, no. 51 (58)
1953 Salzburg, Waldmüller-Ausstellung, no. 98
Literature
Arthur Rössler/Gustav Pisko, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Sein Leben, sein Werk and seine Schriften (mit Werkverzeichnis), 2 vol., Vienna 1907, no. 147;
Arthur Rössler, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Vienna o.J. (1908), p. 41 (ill.);
Bruno Grimschitz, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Salzburg 1957, p. 329, WV-no. 577 (BW-ill.);
Rupert Feuchtmüller, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. 1793-1865. Leben, Schriften, Werke, Vienna/Munich 1996, p. 481, WV-no. 638 (BW-ill.)
Estimate: € 10.000 - 20.000
Realized price: € 13.000 (incl. fees and Austrian VAT)
Hammer Price: € 10.000
Auction is closed.
Waldmüller painted this self-portrait in 1841, presenting himself as a serious, mature man of 48. Rupert Feuchtmüller describes the portrait as follows: ‘... The lips are narrow, the large eyes directed at his reflection; a self-critical portrayal, perhaps somewhat uncertain and questioning. One might think to find in these facial features something of the harshness of the dispute in matters of art, but also of the offences and rejections that have befallen him.’ (Feuchtmüller, 1996, p. 128)