The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Group Portrait Eden Bar
1923
(German, 1884–1950)
publisher
Sheet: 70 x 56 cm (27 9/16 x 22 1/16 in.); Image: 49.5 x 49.5 cm (19 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2006.112
Catalogue raisonné: Hofmaier 277
Location: not on view
Description
Group Portrait Eden Bar depicts the artist’s friends Elsita Lutz, an Argentinean singer who studied voice in Berlin, her husband Wilhelm, and Johanna Loeb clustered around a small table. Behind the figures are the truncated bodies of three double bass players. The close proximity of the figures and the eeriness of the headless musicians emphasizes the claustrophobic, oppressive atmosphere of the nightclub, which in 1919 was the site of the brutal murder of the Marxist political theorist Rosa Luxemburg.- Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).
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