Untitled (Still Life, Window)
- Artist
- Rudi Tröger, German, born 1929
- Date
- c.1975
- Material
- Graphite on paper
- made in
- Munich, Bavaria state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Drawings & watercolors
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 13 13/16 x 9 7/8 in. (35.1 x 25.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, and Rudi Tröger
- Rights
- © Rudi Tröger
- Object Number
- 22:2006
NOTES
Rudi Tröger made this lightly sketched drawing after taking a walk with his wife in the Bavarian Forest. Tröger said, "In the morning, the mild sunlight transforms the broad white windowsill into a blend of yellow and violet. It was Easter day and the baked lamb with cross and gold flag sat quietly with the first yellow primrose in green grass. Miniature colored eggs, pussy willows with their silken skins in a jug, and chrome-yellow sugar chicks were also part of the arrangement." At the drawing's upper edge, the artists wrote notes about color and contrast indicating that it is a preparatory drawing for a future painting.
Provenance
c.1975 - 2006
Rudi Tröger and Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany [1]
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of Rudi Tröger and Galerie Fred Jahn [2]
Notes:
[1] The work has been in the possession of the artist and Galerie Fred Jahn since the year of its completion, which is listed as 1970/1980 in the catalogue raisonné of the artist's drawings [Lypp, Bernhardt and L. Johne. "Rudi Tröger: Zeichnungen 1957-1985." Munich: Galerie Fred Jahn, 1987. cat. no. 225, p. 225).
[2] Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 3, 2006; Deed of Gift dated June 20, 2006 [SLAM document files].
Rudi Tröger and Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany [1]
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of Rudi Tröger and Galerie Fred Jahn [2]
Notes:
[1] The work has been in the possession of the artist and Galerie Fred Jahn since the year of its completion, which is listed as 1970/1980 in the catalogue raisonné of the artist's drawings [Lypp, Bernhardt and L. Johne. "Rudi Tröger: Zeichnungen 1957-1985." Munich: Galerie Fred Jahn, 1987. cat. no. 225, p. 225).
[2] Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 3, 2006; Deed of Gift dated June 20, 2006 [SLAM document files].