Mother with Two Children (Family) – Works – Sammlung Online

Advanced Search

Gustav Klimt, Mutter mit zwei Kindern (Familie), 1909/1910, Öl auf Leinwand, 90 × 90 cm, Belved…

Favorite
Share
Permalinkhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/27315/mutter-mit-zwei-kindern-familie
IIIF
Expand

Mother with Two Children (Family)
Date1909/1910

Künstler*in Gustav Klimt (1862 Wien – 1918 Wien)

ULAN

Object typeGemälde
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
90 x 90 cm
Inventory number10501
Locations Derzeit nicht ausgestellt
Credit Line2012 Legat Peter Parzer, Wien
Exhausted, the young mother has drifted off to sleep, cradling her two small children in her arms. The family is wrapped in a pile of dark blankets that keep them warm and seem to merge with the undefined space around them. Only their sleeping faces seem to shine through the darkness. Are the three sitting in a dark room, or outside, or even on the street? Gustav Klimt’s contemporaries recognized the subjects as a family living on the fringes of society. The choice of subject is unusual in Klimt’s oeuvre, as he never addressed poverty in any other painting. Nevertheless, the timeless theme of the painting seems to be one of tender maternal love.

Provenance
Exhibitions

Galerie Miethke, Wien (?).
1914–1938 Heinrich Mayer, Wien.
1938–1946 Helene Mayer, Wien.
1946 Richard Parzer, Wien
2012 Legat Peter Parzer, Wien

Contact Provenance Research

Exhibitions of the Belvedere