Der Arbeitslose

1939

not on display

Ernst Morgenthaler1887 Kleindietwil – 1962 Zürich

The unemployed man was a homeless man named Hermann Haller, who begged at Morgenthaler's and was taken in by him together with his dog for the winter of 1938/39. A painting dated 1938 shows him sitting behind an empty glass at a table (see Matthias Wohlgemuth/Franz Zelger: Stiftung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, vol. III (Zurich 1984)).In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Unemployed Man

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 150 x 80 cm

Inventory number

1948/0002

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, loan of the Canton of Zurich, 1948

Signature

inscr. b. l.: EM 39

Inscriptions

Accession year

1948

Provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 405. - Stiftung Oskar Reinhart Winterthur (Kataloge Schweizer Museen und Sammlungen), Zürich: Orell Füssli, 1984, No. 106, S. 258.

Object type

painting

Classification

D 1[1] art 20th century CHE

Keywords

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