Rudolf Jettmar (1869-1939 Vienna)
Flute Player by a Forest Spring
1923
oil on canvas
68,5 x 67 cm
signed and dated lower right
The Daulton Collection
Provenance:
formerly in the collection of the pianist Marzelline Kudlic (1885-1957), Vienna, with a handwritten label on the reverse
after 1957 again in the possession of the artist's family, Baden-Württemberg
Catalogue Raisonne: Hofstätter Ö 92 (there dated as 1919)
Exhibitions:
"Rudolf Jettmar," Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg 1978/79
Discussion:
This painting is Rudolf Jettmar's love letter to the pianist Marzelline (Marze) Kudlic, with whom Jettmar was in a relationship after he and his wife Irma separated in 1920. Kudlic owned the painting, and, after her death, it was returned by her heirs to the artist's son. Jettmar painted portraits of Marze in 1927 and 1929; The Daulton Collection owns the 1929 portrait.
