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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Brütt, Ferdinand
1849 Hamburg - 1936 Bergen.
«Durch Nacht zum Licht (through night to light)».
Around 1903. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and inscribed «Cbg». Verso on the stretcher titled as well as inscribed «v. F. Brütt» presumably by a different hand.
H 60,5, W 76 cm (support). Framed.
As a study after the painting «Christus Victor» from 1894 also known as «Was toben die Heiden (why do the heathens rage)», in which Christ as a figure of light brings the striking workers' society to their senses, we see a similar scene in the present work. It is interesting to note the «moral pointing finger» of the light figure, as this also plays an important role in Brütt's court paintings, a genre that he strongly influenced.
Exhibition: Ferdinand Brütt (1849 - 1936), Erzählung und Impression, Museum Giersch, Frankfurt a.M., 18.03. - 15.07.2007, p. 117, No. 66.
Literature: Alexander Bastek, Ferdinand Brütt und das städtisch-bürgerliche Genre um 1900, Weimar 2007, p. 222, No. 1903.11.
Catalogue raisonné: Bastek 1903.11.

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