Tempete

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Tempête (Der Sturm, The Storm) (Marianne von Werefkin)
Tempête (The Storm)
Marianne von Werefkin , 1907/08
Tempera on cardboard
57 × 76 cm
Fondazione Marianne Werefkin, Museo comunale d'arte, Ascona

Tempête (storm) is the title of a painting that the Russian artist Marianne von Werefkin painted in 1907/08. The work belongs to the holdings of the Fondazione Marianne Werefkin (FMW) in Ascona . There it bears the inventory number FMW-0-0-10. The corresponding sketch dated 1907/08 , a colorful gouache with the inventory number FMW-a24, is also in the FMW collection.

Technology and dimensions

It is a tempera painting on cardboard , 57 × 76 cm. Ascona

iconography

The iconography of the picture initially seems clear: four women standing on the shore of a sea fear for the lives of their husbands on the three fishing boats that threaten to capsize in the storm-lashed waves of the sea. Werefkin illustrates the entire powerlessness of humans against the forces of nature through the posture and moving gestures of the women.

The number symbolism of the picture

However, the painter wants to convey far more to the viewer: the four elements - fire, water, air and earth. The four number of women puts them in connection with the higher-ranking three number of boats and summarizes them to the number seven with the symbolic content of the ordered totality. The highest place in the number system - as in the picture - is occupied by the indivisible number one , illustrated by a lighthouse - symbol of the eternal goal - which shows the saving direction to the three boats with its fire. The picture makes it clear that Werefkin, trained by the teachings of the philosopher Solovyov, saw in the raging sea an image of life and elementary forces that are unable to destroy the cohesion of the world structure.

literature

  • Clemens Weiler : Marianne von Werefkin. In exh. Cat .: Marianne Werefkin 1860–1938. Municipal Museum Wiesbaden 1958
  • Bernd Fäthke: Marianne Werefkin and her influence on the Blue Rider. In: exhib. Cat .: Marianne Werefkin, paintings and sketches. Museum Wiesbaden 1980, p. 14 ff
  • Bernd Fäthke : Marianne Werefkin: Clemens Weiler's Legacy. In: Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in her Circle. (Tanja Malycheva and Isabel Wünsche eds.), Leiden / Boston 2016 (English), pp. 8–19, ISBN 978-9-0043-2897-6 , pp. 8–19, here pp. 14–19; JSTOR 10.1163 / j.ctt1w8h0q1.7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Fäthke: Marianne Werefkin. Munich 2001, p. 188, ISBN 3-7774-9040-7