Three women in the church
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| Three women in the church |
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| Wilhelm Leibl , 1881 |
| oil on wood |
| 113 × 77 cm |
| Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Three women in the church is a picture by Wilhelm Leibl . The oil painting on mahogany wood 113 x 77 cm in size and provides three peasant women of different ages in Miesenbacher Gebirgstracht is that praying and reading on a pew to sit.
painting
The painting in the style of realism was created between 1878 and 1882 in the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Berbling , a district of Bad Aibling . Leibl the farmers had hired, paid and long three-year model can sit. Anna Staber, the woman on the right in the picture and Maria Buchner, in the middle, came from Berbling. The woman praying on the left is Maria Vogl, called die Tumin, came from Mietraching near Bad Aibling. The young maid Anna Staber was too ill to work in the fields when she started work and was therefore selected. The original pastor of Berblings died in 1878, shortly after work on the painting began. The successor forbade further painting. Only the called Prince Regent Luitpold was able to settle the situation.
Overall, the composition and the lifelike depiction already impressed his contemporaries, including Vincent van Gogh who praised the painting by the then 38-year-old artist. In a letter to his mother dated October 26, 1878, the painter assessed his picture as follows:
“I paint a young woman and two old women who sit at the confessional and are absorbed in prayer. Everyone wears mountain costume (Miesbach costume), which is very beautiful, especially with the younger ones. I can't understand why no one has painted these people exactly. What I've finished so far has cost terrible work, but according to those who saw it, it is the best of my work so far. "
In 1882 it was exhibited in the First International Art Exhibition in the Künstlerhaus in Vienna. Hermann Bahr commented: "a true masterpiece of healthy, vigorous, exaggerated realism."
The painter sold the picture to the Schön family in Worms in 1883 for 40,000 marks . In 1884 it was exhibited in Vienna, Paris and London. It has been in the Hamburger Kunsthalle since 1906 . The rococo- style pews and a copy of the painting are still in the church today.
Other paintings from this period
- Two Dachau women in the inn (1874–75)
- Elderly farmer and young girl ("The Unequal Couple") (1876/77)
- Peasants in conversation (village politician) (1877)
literature
- Norbert Huse: Small art history of Munich . CH Beck, 2004, p. 184.
Web links
- Image description with interpretation on germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Bureau for Art History: Picture Review of the Month - Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900), Three Women in the Church, 1878-1882, oil on wood, 113 × 77 cm, Hamburg Kunsthalle
- ^ Hermann Bahr : Wiener Kunstbriefe . I. In: Salzburger Volksblatt , 12, 1882, # 104, pp. 1–3, here: 2. (May 6, 1882)