42. Winter in Giverny

Melancholic by nature, as well as a dreamer and with a permanent predisposition towards walks in nature, Samuel Mützner remains faithful to the principles of Impressionism, and later on to Pointillism, which he mainly applied to landscapes. The artist's greatest passion was travelling. During 1908-1910 he settled down in Giverny, where, for a few years, he worked alongside Claude Monet, who exerted a major influence on the artist's vision, cultivating his passion for the Impressionist landscape, covered in layers of light. From Giverny, he heads off towards Algiers, where he studies at the New Painting Academy. The artist accomplished a broad exhibition activity nationally (Artistic Youth, personal exhibitions), as well as internationally (Paris – Salon d’Automne, “Société des artistes français”, New York, Puerto Rico, Caracas, Curaçao, Seville, Maracaibo, Venice, Sofia, Moscow, Prague). In 1923, the artist marries painter Rodica Maniu, with whom he would share a spiritual and affective bond for the rest of his life. They travel and work together in Balchik (where they return constantly), Kaliakra, Corsica and the Near East. Mützner remains concerned with those landscapes that capture each place's atmosphere and spirit. He remains faithful to Impressionist solutions, where light plays an important part in the structure of the whole, being also a method of building space, perspective and dynamic impression.

References

ANDREESCU, Viorica "Samuel Mützner", Bucharest, 1974 MATEESCU, Denia "Culorile grădinii în peisajul românesc. 1850 – 1955" ("Garden colours in the Romanian landscape. 1850 – 1955") (catalogue), MNAR, 2006 PAVEL, Amelia, "Pictori evrei din România, 1848-1948" ("Jewish painters in Romania, 1848-1948"), Hasefer Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996

Dimensions

width 53 cm, height 45 cm, custom 45 × 53 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed and dated bottom left with black, "S .MUTZNER, 1924"

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