This is one of a group of paintings depicting roses growing along a fence at the Villa Knorr on the western shore of Lake Starnberg near Munich, a popular vacation spot which Trübner visited in the summer of 1909. Known early in his career for his trenchant depictions of laborers and the middle class, by this date Trübner had embraced landscape painting, and in particular views of gardens, which offered carefully cultivated topography and foliage that delighted his eye. He pared this view down to its essential elements of line and color, accented by pink and red blooms.
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Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): W.Trübner: 1910.
[Galerie Oscar Hermes, Munich, until 1913; sold in 1913 to Reisinger]; Hugo Reisinger, New York (1913–d. 1914; his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, January 19, 1916, no. 145, for $1,100, to The Met)
Washington. Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building. "Selections from a Special Collection," September 19–October 26, 1984, no. 31.
Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg. "Wilhelm Trübner, 1851–1917," December 10, 1994–February 19, 1995, no. 115 (as "Rosenzaun am Starnberger See").
Munich. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung. "Wilhelm Trübner, 1851–1917," March 10–May 21, 1995, no. 115.
Frank E. Washburn-Freund. "Die Sammlung Stransky: Ein Vorposten Deutscher Kunst in Amerika." Der Cicerone 8 (1916), p. 207, reports its acquisition by The Met on the advice of Joseph Stransky.
B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "Recent Accessions." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 11 (March 1916), pp. 72–73.
Jos[eph]. Aug[ust]. Beringer. Trübner: Des Meisters Gemälde. Stuttgart, 1917, p. 388, as "Rosenhag (Rose-hedge)"; dates it 1908; erroneously illustrates a different version as ours.
Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 97.
Klaus Rohrandt. "Wilhelm Trübner (1851–1917): Kritischer und beschreibender Katalog sämtlicher Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik. Biographie und Studien zum Werk." PhD diss., Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1971–1972, vol. 1, pp. 36–37; vol. 2, no. G725, notes that there are several versions of "Rosenzaun am Starnberger See" from 1909 and 1910.
Mary Anne Goley. Selections from a Special Collection. Exh. cat., Washington Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building. 1984, pp. 5, 14, no. 31.
Jutta Schneider inWilhelm Trübner, 1851–1917. Exh. cat., Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg. [Heidelberg], 1994, pp. 308–9, no. 115, ill. (color), identifies this picture as having been painted at Lake Starnberg and dates it about 1909 [see Klaus Rohrandt's essay, pp. 47–49, regarding Trübner's Lake Starnberg landscapes].
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 239, ill.
Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin. May 27, 2006, unpaginated, under no. 149, mentions it as a variant of an undated picture depicting the garden of the Villa Knorr in Niederpöcking along the western shore of Lake Starnberg, where Trübner stayed in the summer of 1909.
This painting depicts the garden of the Villa Knorr in Niederpöcking along the western shore of Lake Starnberg (see Villa Grisebach 2006). There are at least two other versions of this composition, both signed but not dated (Neumeister Kunstauktionen, Munich, July 2, 2003, no. 791; and formerly J. P. Schneider Jr., Frankfurt, in 2006). Two other paintings depict the same motif of a rose hedge with an extended view of the garden (Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg, Heidelberg, October 21, 2005, no. 485; Hampel Fine Art Auctions, Munich, September 23, 2005, no. 150).
Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)
1914
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