[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG)./internal/media/dispatcher/84476/fullBalloon Seller1. Teil eines Triptychons1931190 × 110 cm
Oil on canvas86801
Otto Rudolf Schatz returned from World War I as a committed pacifist. In his subsequent works, the artist critically commented on the misery, loneliness, and crime in the big city. This motif of the cool and melancholy Balloon Seller thus calls to mind the seedy side of the Prater amusement park in Vienna. The fact that the buyer is not visible makes space for sinister associations. In 1938 Schatz was banned from producing and exhibiting art and went underground in Prague over the ensuing years. He was arrested in 1944 and deported to different labor camps and to Gräditz concentration camp. After World War II, Schatz returned to Vienna and documented the rebuilding and recovery of the city in his paintings.Painting101922071622Upper Belvederehttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-1622/manifest