Georg Johann Seitz
1810 Nuremberg (?) - 1870 Vienna
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Fruit
oil on panel, 48.8 x 68.5 cm
bottom right: G. Seitz
NG S 2044
The artist signed these two paintings and they are probably from a late period in his development. They are typical of the still lifes which were popular at the time of the Biedermeier and remained so right up to the last quarter of the 19th century. There is a touch of academism in them, which is also evident in the stereotype repetition of the same slab of marble with an arrangement of fruit or a vase with pretty, unpretentious flowers. The compositional formula, which was decisive in these paintings, was introduced at the beginning of the 19th century in Vienna, later emulators repeated it almost up to the eve of World War I.
Exhibition: 1989, Ljubljana, No. 64.
Lit.: Zeri and Rozman 1989 pp. 152–153 Cat. and Fig. No. 64.
Restored: 1987, Kemal Selmanović.
Provenance: Unknown. FCC ca. 1945; Government of Slovenia, Ljubljana; on loan to the Committee for International Cooperation, Ljubljana, until 1986; 1986 entrusted to the Narodna galerija.
Owner:
National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana
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