The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Composition
1924
(German, 1878–1943)
Overall: 74.6 x 53.8 cm (29 3/8 x 21 3/16 in.)
Bequest of Lockwood Thompson 1992.277
Location: not on view
Description
After studying art in Germany and Italy, Freundlich visited Paris for the first time in 1908, and worked alongside avant-garde writers and artists such as Apollinaire, Braque, and Picasso in the bohemian district of Montmartre. Freundlich painted his first purely abstract works in 1911 and henceforth became committed to pioneering abstraction. His work was included in groundbreaking exhibitions before and after World War I in Berlin, Munich, and Paris. Some of his most lyrically intense pastels—such as Composition—were made in 1924 following a trip to Paris when he participated in the Salon des Indépendants.- (Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris), sold to donor, 1938
- Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017. Reproduced: cat. 167, p. 344Friedrich, Julia, ed. Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism. Cologne, Germany: Museum Ludwig; Basel, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Basel; Munich, Germany; London, England; New York, New York: Prestel, 2017. p. 141 Reproduced: p. 141
- The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).
- {{cite web|title=Composition|url=false|author=Otto Freundlich|year=1924|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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