Rudolf Jettmar (Austrian, 1869-1939)
"Self-Portrait"
1896/1930-31
oil on canvas, framed
approx. 53 x 39 cm
signed,
dated 96, and inscribed "Rom," bottom center left
Conserved by Andrea Rothe (formerly, Getty Museum) and Jeanne McKee-Rothe (formerly, Norton Simon Museum).
PROVENANCE
Jettmar’s Self-Portrait (1896) was in his estate
(Nachlass) upon his death, from which it passed to his son the noted
anthropologist Karl Jettmar (1918-2002) and then within the family in
Baden-Württemberg until its sale at Karl & Faber Kunstauktionen, Munich, on
June 5, 2014 (Auction 256, Lot 522).
EXHIBITIONS
1975 Rudolf Jettmar, Ostdeutsche Galerie,
Regensburg, Germany
1978-79 Rudolf Jettmar,
Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg, Germany
2000 SeelenReich – Die
Entwicklung des deutschen Symbolismus 1870-1920 [Kingdom of the Soul
– Symbolist Art in Germany 1870-1920], Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
am Main, Germany; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England; and Prins Eugens
Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Dekadenz – Positionen des österreichischen Symbolismus [Decadence – Aspects of Austrian Symbolism],
Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
LITERATURE
1975 Rudolf Jettmar (Regensburg: Ostdeutsche
Galerie, 1975), cat no.23, illustrated on catalogue cover and at p.44.
1984 Hans H. Hofstätter, Rudolf Jettmar (Vienna: Tusch, 1984),
illustrated at p. 57; the catalogue raisonne.
1992 Annalia
Delneri, et al., Simbolismo Secessione --
Jettmar ai confine dell’Impero, (Gorizia: Castello di Gorizia, 1992),
illustrated at p. 31.
2000 Ingrid
Ehrhardt and Simon Reynolds, eds., SeelenReich – Die Entwicklung des deutschen Symbolismus
1870-1920 (Munich, London, and New York:
Prestel, 2000), cat. no. 159, illustrated in
catalogue at p. 273. English edition: Kingdom of the Soul – Symbolist Art in
Germany 1870-1920.
2013 Dekadenz – Positionen des österreichischen Symbolismus (Vienna:
Belvedere, 2013), illustrated in catalogue at p. 57 and p.159. English edition: Decadence – Aspects of Austrian Symbolism.
