Simultaneous visions

Visioni simultanee
	Umberto Boccioni , 1911/12
	Oil on canvas
	60.5 × 60.5 cm
	From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal

Simultanvisionen (Italian original title: Visioni simultanee ) is a painting by the futuristic painter Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) from 1911/12. It has been part of the collection of the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal since 1975 .

description

Umberto Boccioni was an outstanding exponent of Futurism, from 1911 to 1912 his central theme was the street in an urban environment. Erika Günther describes the painting as follows:

“ In the picture, outside interpenetrate, splintered color and surface forms clarify the dynamics of the city, while the rhythm and noise of the metropolis are expressed in the simultaneous multiple perspectives of the objects, captured in different moments of movement. "

- Erika Günther

The work is executed in oil on canvas and has a square format of 60.5 × 60.5 cm. It bears the inventory number G 1315 of the Wuppertal Von der Heydt Museum.

Other similar works by Boccioni with the motif of the street
La strada entra nella casa , 1911
The Street Pavers , 1914

Provenance and exhibitions

The provenance of the painting is not fully documented; it was acquired in the von der Heydt collection in 1975.

The work was probably shown at the first futurist exhibition organized abroad in the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris from February 5 to 24, 1912.

literature

Uta Laxner-Gerlach: Catalog of the paintings of the 19th century . Ed .: From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Wuppertal 1974, p. 313 (illustration).

Web links

Commons : Simultaneous Visions - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Erika Günther, ISBN 3-87909-799-2 , p. 19
↑ Erika Günther: Guide to paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries . From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Fritz Altgott, Mönchengladbach 1996, ISBN 3-89202-031-0 , p. 304 .
↑ Ulrike Becks-Malorny, Antje Birthälmer, Sabine Fehlemann, Erika Günther, Herbert Pogt, Constanze Stiegler: The paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries . From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Wienand, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-87909-799-2 , p. 19 .
↑ Erika Günther, ISBN 3-87909-799-2 , p. 19
↑ after Erika Günther, ISBN 3-89202-031-0 , p. 304

[1] Erika Günther, ISBN 3-87909-799-2 , p. 19

[2] Erika Günther: Guide to paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries . From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Fritz Altgott, Mönchengladbach 1996, ISBN 3-89202-031-0 , p. 304 .

[3] Ulrike Becks-Malorny, Antje Birthälmer, Sabine Fehlemann, Erika Günther, Herbert Pogt, Constanze Stiegler: The paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries . From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Wienand, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-87909-799-2 , p. 19 .

[4] Erika Günther, ISBN 3-87909-799-2 , p. 19

[5] ter Erika Günther, ISBN 3-89202-031-0 , p. 304