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Compare the one large dark blue shape of the mountain with the many small patches of green, orange and pink in the fields below it.
Jawlensky often spent the summer at Murnau with Kandinsky and Münter, and he painted this view of the town in 1910. It is small, about 33 by 42 centimeters, and painted on hardboard. A dark blue mountain fills the top half against pink clouds, with fields and roofs set down below in patches of color.
oil on hardboard · overall: 32.9 x 42.3 cm · National Gallery of Art · Expressionism
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- Museum title
- Murnau
- Artist
- Alexej von Jawlensky Russian, 1864 - 1941
- Date
- 1910
- Medium
- oil on hardboard
- Dimensions
- overall: 32.9 x 42.3 cm (12 15/16 x 16 5/8 in.) framed: 46.5 x 56.2 x 4.7 cm (18 5/16 x 22 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.