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Creator

Oscar Florianus Bluemner

Title

Landscape Without Words

Date Created

1927

Spatial Coverage

55.3 cm x 41.1 cm (21 3/4 in. x 16 3/16 in.)

Identifier

1991.190

Medium

Oil on board

Description

Oscar Bluemner’s Landscape without Words strikes equilibrium between opposing forces: the man-made and the natural, the geometric and the organic, the fragmented and the unified. According to the artist’s prolific notes, he approached the genre of landscape “as if it were a person . . . a semi-self portraiture.” Bluemner’s persona comes through in this painting in his choice of subject: a house. Placed precariously atop a hill, the house in Landscape without Words nods to the artist’s formal training in architecture; by the 1920s, these residential structures had emerged as a primary motif in his work. As the title of this painting suggests, Bluemner manipulated the forms and colors in Landscape without Words to visually express the unspoken—the multifaceted experience of the self and the surrounding world.

Rights Holder

Gift of Mari and James A. Michener, 1991

Date

Prenzlau, Germany (Breslau, Poland), 1867 - 1938, South Braintree, Massachusett

Type

painting

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