Rudolf Jettmar

Hercules and the Hesperides

oil on canvas

1910; subsequently reworked 1932

170 x 300 cm (framed 188 x 318 x 8 cm)

signed and dated lower left: Rudolf Jettmar 1910-932

Provenance:

Estate of the artist; thence by descent in his family in Baden-Württemberg.

Exhibition History:

1911     XXXVIII. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs Secession, Wien, April-July, 1911 [ 38th Exhibition of the Viennese Secession, 1911]

1975      "Rudolf Jettmar," Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

Publication History:

1911      XXXVIII. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs Secession, Wien, April-Juli, 1911 [catalogue of the 38th Viennese Secession exhibition, 1911], Nr. 125, b/w illustration.

1911     A. S. Levetus, "The Spring Exhibition of the Vienna Secession," The Studio, An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, London, Vol. 53, No. 219, June 15, 1911, pgs. 59-64, full-page ill. at 64.  "Rudolf Jettmar, whose fertile fancy still roams in the realm of classical myth, contributed a vigorous interpretation of the old story of Hercules and the Hesperides...."  Id. at pg. 60.

1984     Hans H. Hofstätter, Rudolf Jettmar (Vienna: Tusch, 1984), Ö 68, pg. 161; the catalogue raisonne.