Varietécafé vid stängningsdags

by Martin Emond

Artist Martin Emond (Sverige, 1895 - 1965)

Alternate Title

Varitécafé från Berlin vid stängningsdags
Variety Cafe at Closing Time

Date1938

MediumOlja på masonit

DimensionsBildmått: 90 × 122,5 cm Ram: 104,5 × 137 × 4,3 cm

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchase 1939

Countries

Sweden

Object NumberNM 3363

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkMartin Emond combined many different roles in his life - he lived and worked as a proletariat artist but also managed the dress department of his family's ladies' garment factory in Landskrona until his death. His expressionistically-influenced paintings portray everyday life. "All art that has moved us onwards has been personal, not programmatic." Emond, who grew up in southern Sweden, did not go to Paris like many other artists, but to Berlin, where he found the setting for the painting Variety Cafe at Closing Time. This is a dreary scene, a rendering of "the hopelessness that pervaded the city so strongly." The artist describes the minutes before closing time, with a few lingering guests and thick clouds of cigar smoke.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad i övre vänster hörn "MARTIN EMOND" Selected exhibition history 10 historier - svensk konst 1910-1945 ur Moderna Museets samling (2007) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Bror Hjorths Hus - Färg och form (2003) Bror Hjorths Hus, Uppsala Från sekelskifte till 1940-tal Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Färg och form : Moderna Museet c/o Bror Hjorths Hus : [28 februari - 21 april 2003]10 historier : svensk konst 1910-1945 ur Moderna Museets samling : [2/6 - 9/9 2007]

Works by the artist