拍品专文
In the beginning of this century Maarten Johannes Balthasar Jungmann was known as a very talented and slightly excentric artist.
Rather famous for his expressionist landscapes and provocative portraits. One of these portraits De man met de hoed op een oor, representing a drunken gentleman, was a prizewinner in 1911 at a contest organised by the Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen Rotterdam. The painting was eventually offered to the Museum Boymans in Rotterdam. A special committee however refused to accept the painting, which was thought to be too large for the museum. The real reason was that the man portrayed, beared close resemblance to the mayor of Rotterdam, who also happened to be chairman of the special committee. This incident brought great fame to Jungmann and as a result many successful exhibitions of his work were held in The Netherlands. However his fame was of short duration. From 1925 on he painted almost nothing. In stead of painting he started to collect antiquities and fine pictures. Much of his work got lost in the bombardment of Rotterdam in 1940. A few years later Jungmann moved to the city of Leiden where he died in 1964.
This lot is an excellent example of Jungmann's expressionist reproduction of the rough and desolated Dutch polderland.
(exhibition catalogue Dordrechts Museum, Maarten Jungmann-schilderijen, 20 June-16 August 1981, p. 3-6)
See illustration
Rather famous for his expressionist landscapes and provocative portraits. One of these portraits De man met de hoed op een oor, representing a drunken gentleman, was a prizewinner in 1911 at a contest organised by the Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen Rotterdam. The painting was eventually offered to the Museum Boymans in Rotterdam. A special committee however refused to accept the painting, which was thought to be too large for the museum. The real reason was that the man portrayed, beared close resemblance to the mayor of Rotterdam, who also happened to be chairman of the special committee. This incident brought great fame to Jungmann and as a result many successful exhibitions of his work were held in The Netherlands. However his fame was of short duration. From 1925 on he painted almost nothing. In stead of painting he started to collect antiquities and fine pictures. Much of his work got lost in the bombardment of Rotterdam in 1940. A few years later Jungmann moved to the city of Leiden where he died in 1964.
This lot is an excellent example of Jungmann's expressionist reproduction of the rough and desolated Dutch polderland.
(exhibition catalogue Dordrechts Museum, Maarten Jungmann-schilderijen, 20 June-16 August 1981, p. 3-6)
See illustration