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Work Title (display):
Woman, Why are you Crying?
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
late 19th to early 20th century
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Fritz Karl Hermann von Uhde (German, 1848-1911)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
German painter. He came from a family of civil servants with artistic interests. In 1866 he briefly attended the Hochschule der Bildende Künste in Dresden, but he was bored by the teaching and in 1867 he joined the army. In 1877, despite being an officer, he took leave of absence, having decided after all to be an artist. He was determined to succeed rapidly in order to justify his late start and almost to the end of his life, therefore, his work revealed a tension between innovation and conformity. Rejected as a pupil by Hans Makart, Karl Theodor von Piloty and Wilhelm von Diez (18391907), Uhde studied 17th-century Dutch painters in Munich on his own. On the invitation of Mihály Munkácsy he went to Paris in 1879 and attended Munkácsy's painting school for five months. His last work painted at the school, The Chanteuse (1880; Munich, Neue Pin.), a genre painting aiming at popular success, received honourable mention at the Salon. In Paris Uhde first discovered his abiding interest in painting from nature. In 1880 he returned to Munich, where he was based for the rest of his career. Encouraged by Max Liebermann, he experimented with plein-air painting in the Netherlands. Fishermen's Children in Zandvoort (1882; Vienna, Belvedere) was painted entirely en plein air, yet Uhde only dared to exhibit a much more conventional version, the Hurdy-gurdy Man is Coming (1883; Hamburg, Ksthalle), in which the immediacy of the study was lost. In Drum Practice (1883; Dresden, Gemäldegal. Neue Meister), a subject from military life given a plein-air treatment, Uhde adopted a provocative Naturalism, which he abandoned after receiving harsh reviews by conservative critics. Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me (1884; Leipzig, Mus. Bild. Kst) shows Jesus as an itinerant preacher receiving timid peasant children at a village school. The critics accepted this work by the 'painter of filth' because of its important religious content. Thus Uhde found a way to pursue what really interested himthe rendering of natural light and realistic settingsunder the guise of religious subject-matter. Against the current of 19th-century historicism, Uhde's updated versions of events from the life of Jesus set among the contemporary poor were very successful, for example Last Supper (1886; Stuttgart, Staatsgal.) and Holy Night (1888/9; Dresden, Gemäldegal. Neue Meister). In Heavy Gait (see fig.) the secularization is taken so far that only the initiate can discern the religious subject, the journey to Bethlehem. Like all of Uhde's works, this depiction of a wretched, homeless craftsman's family does not accuse, but rather arouses pity. Nevertheless, setting episodes from the Gospels in the context of contemporary poverty was explosive; it suggested that the Christian demand of equality for all men had not been met politically or socially. Conservative elements of the public condemned the paintings for degrading holy subjects and unleashed a controversy, which paradoxically made the artist the most popular of his day. Until the early 1890s Uhde was regarded as the head of the Naturalist movement in Munich. He was one of the founders of the Munich Secession in 1892 (see Secession, §1). The cultural liberalization in Germany in the 1890s caused Naturalism to lose some of its force as an oppositional movement. Uhde's religious paintings became more conventional, authoritarian rather than egalitarian. In 190305 he painted his only commissioned religious work, the altarpiece (Das Volk, das in der Finsternis sass, hat ein grosses Licht gesehen, Matthew 4:16; in situ) for the Lutheran church at Zwickau. The Protestant church began to accept Uhde's work, and in 1908 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the theological faculty at Leipzig. It was in his unofficial work that Uhde expressed his personality most clearly; his private family pictures, showing his home life and his three daughters (his wife died in 1886), such as Nursery (1889; Hamburg, Ksthalle) and In the Bower (1896; Düsseldorf, Kstmus.), eventually won public recognition. Uhde showed much sensitivity as a painter of children, to whom, as a shy man, he felt close, for example in Little Princess of the Heath (1889; Berlin, Alte N.G.). Summers spent at Dachau and at a country house at Starnberg in the 1890s influenced his steady development towards an Impressionistic rendering of light. From the late 1890s he produced fresh, glowing paintings of his daughters in the garden, which became his refuge when he withdrew from the art world after 1900: In the Garden (1901; Frankfurt am Main, Städel. Kstinst. & Städt. Gal.) and In the Garden (1906; Mannheim, Städt. Ksthalle). (Grove Art Online Accessed 2007-10-22)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Impressionist
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Work Subject:
emotions
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emotions
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Work Subject:
women (female humans)
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women (female humans)
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Work Subject:
crying
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crying
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
Jesus Christ
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Jesus Christ
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Work Subject:
sadness
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sadness
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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Work Material and Technique (display):
paint on canvas
Work Measurements (display):
52 cm (H) x 60 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Vienna, Austria
Image Rights (display):
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Work Rights (display):
public domain
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