The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Fitness Training in the Colonies

Fitness Training in the Colonies

1930
(German, 1890–1965)
Image: 14.8 x 18.8 cm (5 13/16 x 7 3/8 in.); Mounted: 17.3 x 20.2 cm (6 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Paper: 15.5 x 19.5 cm (6 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Roh, who had combined images through photomontage, was encouraged to investigate collage by the Surrealist painter and collagist Max Ernst. Like Ernst, Roh used old-fashioned printed illustrations that could be cut out and moved around to compose implausible narratives. While Fitness Training in the Colonies has humorous aspects, The Isolation of Nazism addresses a serious and timely threat. Is this a depiction of wishful thinking-the hope that someone will restrain the Nazis? Or is the isolation that of the artist under Nazi rule?
  • Juliane Roh [1909-1987], Munich
    Marion Grčić-Ziersch, Munich
    (Mayor Gallery, London)
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. Reproduced: p. 79, no. 45; reproduced and mentioned: p. 233.
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Franz Roh: Collages. The Mayor Gallery (December 12, 2002-February 28, 2003).
  • {{cite web|title=Fitness Training in the Colonies|url=false|author=Franz Roh|year=1930|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.114