Ferdinand Brütt
At the Stock Market
1888
Oil on canvas. 121 x 155 cm.
Framed.
Signed lower right: Ferd. Brütt Ddf. 88., inscribed verso: "An der Börse" von F Brütt Düsseldorf.
A second, slightly different variation of this stock market painting with similar dimensions is currently held in private ownership (op, cit. no. 35, illus. p. 69). A third, smaller version painted in 1891, displaying much looser brushwork and a differing composition, is housed in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt (op. cit. no. 42, illus. p. 77).
Catalogue Raisonné
Bastek, 1888.1
Provenance
Galerie D. Heinemann, Munich, purchased directly from the artist at the International Art Exhibition in Munich in 1888, Heinemann no. 5133. - General Director Dr Becker, Krefeld (acquired from the aforementioned on 21 Sept. 1918). - Auctioned 1.10.1932. - North German private collection. - Lempertz, Cologne 17 May 2003, lot 1368. - Acquired there.
Literature
Illustrated cat. of the IIIrd. International Art Exhibition (Munich Anniversary Exhibition) at the Royal Glass Palace in Munich 1888, no. 730, p. 18, ill. p. 19. - F. Pecht: Die Münchner Ausstellungen von 1888, Die Kunst für Alle, 19, July 1888, p. 298. - R. Muther: The International Art Exhibition in Munich. III, Zeitschrift für bildenden Kunst 23, 1888, p. 329. - Über Land und Meer. Allgemeine illustrierte Zeitung, vol. 61, 1889, illus. p. 313. - Modern Art at the Hamburg Trade and Industrial Exhibition, Die Kunst für Alle, 3/ issue 2, 1889/90, pp. 28-30 - F. von Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts, (Reprint ed. Dresden 1891-1901), Leipzig 1941, vol. 1/1, p. 140, no. 21 - Exposition des Beaux-Arts, exhib. cat. D. Heinemann, Munich/Nice, 1901, no. 31, p. 7, plate. - Exposition des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat. D. Heinemann, Munich/Nice, 1901, no. 31, p. 7, plate. - Cat. Galerie Heinemann, Munich, 1905/6, ill. p. 29. - F. Seidenzahl (ed.): Hundert Jahre Deutsche Bank 1870-1970, Festschrift, Frankfurt/Main, 1970, illus. (wood engraving) after p. 52 - H.-J. Ziemke: Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt/Main, - Cat. Die Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts, ed. v. E. v. Holzinger, I (text), Frankfurt/Main 1972, p. 36 - A. Größlein: Die Internationalen Kunstausstellungen der Münchner Künstlergenosseschaft im Glaspalast in München von 1886-1888, Munich 1987, pp. S. 293. - Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule, vol. 1, Munich 1997, p. 199 - A. Bastek: Ferdinand Brütt und das städtisch-bürgerliche Genre um 1900, Weimar 2007, pp. 92-101, p. 215, no. 1888.1 - Ferdinand Brütt (1849-1936). Erzählung und Impression, exh. cat. Museum Giersch, Frankfurt/Main 2007, p. 11 (2nd version of the painting of 1888), pp. 29-31, double-page colour illus. 36, p. 70f, detail illus. p. 84, illus. 29-30 (reproductions), p. 206f, p. 236, no. 1888.1.
Exhibitions
International Art Exhibition (Munich Jubilee Exhibition) in the Royal Glass Palace in Munich, 1888, no. 730. - Trade and Industry Exhibition, Hamburg, from 15 May 1889. - Exposition des Beaux-Arts, D. Heinemann, Munich/Nice, 1901, no. 31. - Ferdinand Brütt 1849 - 1936, Erzählung und Impression, Museum Giersch, Frankfurt am Main, 18 March - 15 July 2007.