93. Soup Preparations [1934]

Samuel Mützner

1884, Bucureşti - 1959, Bucureşti

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EUR 7.960

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Thu, 21 March 2024 19:00

After returning to the country in 1923, Samuel Mützner adopted rural life as the main theme of his work. He elevated the countryside to the rank of art and captured the local color of rustic life. Alongside his wife, the painter Rodica Maniu, he created in the village where she had inherited a small property, in Olt County. The house hidden under the shade of the trees revealed to the two artists a unique framework. However, Samuel Mützner had a preferred place where he worked, near a tree, a location from where he could admire the poplars and willows of the village. He created en plein air and traversed numerous regions that he gradually integrated into his canvases. Sometimes, he would reach the springs near the field and shaped his color palette according to the evolution of nature. He often painted surrounded by the village children, curious to learn the master's craft. He captured landscapes with hills, fields or corn fields, and focused on rendering the seasons under whose mark he painted. He worked with short, fast brush strokes, harmoniously juxtaposed, and adjusted the light according to the time of day, space and season. In the memoirs published in 1930, Marcu Mützner, the artist's brother, noted about him: “he would run through the forests, on the fields, fall asleep in the grass, splash in the marshes, bathe the horses, run after wild ducks, help with gardening", thus offering us the possibility to step into the artist’s private and family life. Thus, we identify the concern and interest for subjects of popular origin, as well as still life in which scattered on tables or on the ground are fruits of the earth, birds or other animals. Most of the time, he predominantly uses warm colors, typical of torrid summer days, but sometimes he opts for neutral shades, gray and brown, crossed by a few color spots: the gold of the pears or the red from the rooster's crest. Thus, we observe the way in which the artist passionate about Seneca, Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, interprets rural life and the daily customs of the villagers.

References

ANDREESCU, Viorica, "Samuel Mützner", Meridiane Publishing, Bucharest, 1974. MARIAN, Rodica, "Samuel Mützner", Antet Publishing, Bucharest, 2005.

Dimensions

width 59.5 cm, height 49.5 cm

Description

oil on cardboard, signed and dated bottom right, in black, "S. Mutzner, (19)34"

Dating

1934

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