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Tritonenkampf (Clash of the Tritons)
( Czech
1844 to 1910
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Medium
Oil on canvas
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Signed/Inscribed/Dated
Signed and inscribed Roma
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Dimensions
224.00cm wide
109.00cm high
(88.19 inches wide 42.91 inches high)
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Exhibition History:
Vienna, Jubiläumsausstellung, 1892
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Description / Expertise
Born near Sychrov in northern Bohemia, Knüpfer studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts and under Piloty in Munich. “His greatest success was achieved in the 1880s and 1890s as an official painter of the sea and mythological beings (e.g. Duel of the Tritons, c. 1885-90; untraced, see Kotalíková, 1984 exh. cat.). The effect he aimed to achieve was a contrast between imaginary mythologies and the plein-air depiction of natural movement and light. Some of his paintings demonstrate a development from salon painting to fin-de-siècle art, including an element of eroticism…” (Turner, p.171)
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