LOT DETAILS

Materials:

egg tempera on canvas

Size Notes:

each; overall size 360 x 360 cm

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated Weiler 87, titled on the reverse, the collocation of the individual parts set out on the reverse on the stretcher

Provenance:

Collection, Vienna – directly from the artist Nature is not only a surface which presents itself – although it is this too. For anyone who can see – and Weiler can see – it is a place of transition, a corridor between the visible and the invisible, between the palpable and the ominous. For Weiler the mountains were a particular paradigm of these metonymic-metaphorical qualities of nature. We have dealt extensively with their role in his painting. However, Weiler formulated a special scenario from them in his diaries. Towering, striving vertically, they link above and below, thus marking a balance in the world. It is the Tyrol, the place of his birth, and at the same time symbolic of the world.