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Still Life with Two Heads
Date1932

Artist Rudolf Wacker (1893 Bregenz – 1939 Bregenz)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on wood
Dimensions
100 × 63 cm
SignatureSign. und dat. rechts unten: R. Wacker 32
Inventory number3287
Location Currently not on display
Credit Line1934 Widmung Julius Reich-Künstlerstiftung, Wien
Wacker has arranged four items for this still life: a bird suspended by a barely visible string, a child’s drawing on the wall, and, further down, on the table, a wig head and a vase containing a single flower. Each of the objects exists by itself, and yet their placement relative to one another suggests subtle interconnections between them. Wacker was concerned with the “world of the visible.” An exponent of the New Objectivity, he sought to show things as they are. His pictures exude an air of cool dispassion—of “objectivity”—yet they are also quite affecting. The wig head, in particular, makes for a piteous sight. The Berlin-based sculptor Lily Gräf, in 1934, found its flayed “skin” and splintered nose more than she could bear.

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