Bildnis Elsa Glaser

1913

Edvard Munch1863 Løiten (Hedmark) – 1944 Ekely (Oslo)
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Painted in 1913 in Grimsröd in Jelöya, an estate near Moss, which Munch had rented for two years. Else Glaser (née Kolker, 1878-1932) worked as a translator of French literature. Her husband Curt Glaser (1872-1943) was director of the Art Library of the University of Berlin and was in charge of the Department of Modern Prints at the Königliches Kupferstichkabinett. In 1914 he wrote the first monograph on Munch, which was published by Bruno Cassirer in 1917. He already helped Wartmann with the first Munch exhibition in Zurich. In 1933 he had to leave Germany due to persecution; four paintings from his extensive Munch collection were brought to the Kunsthaus.
Also known as
Portrait of Elsa Glaser
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 120.5 x 85 cm
Inventory number
1946/0001
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, 1946