ARTIST: Carl Fischer (Danish, 1887 - 1962)
TITLE: Country Scene
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Some flaking. Few small paint losses. Some craquelure. Some scattered inpaintings.
ART SIZE: 14 x 19 inches / 35 x 48 cm
FRAME SIZE: 18 x 23 inches / 45 x 58 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
NAME VARIANTS: Carl Fisher
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BIOGRAPHY:
Danish artist Carl Fischer contemplates the reflection and invocation of human emotions through interior scenes in his oeuvre of cogitative works. Fischer seems to blend the traditions of Danish art, received through his education at the esteemed Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, with a more modernist mood and method.Interior scenes, often featuring women, took inspiration from the Dutch Golden Age. The weaving of a story of emotion and the state of being simply through depicting everyday life had grown popular in Denmark throughout the 19th century. The home was a haven from other aspects of life, a safe place for the expression of existence. Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916) is the most prominent example of a Danish artist engaging in and building on the traditions of his Dutch forbears.Fischer, however, was also participating in this genre successfully. His moody and thought-provoking works bring the genre up to date with the contemporary trends in art toward modernism. A psychological dive into the state of human existence was incredibly popular, and Fischer imbibes his work with this intention. Walls close in at steep angles on his female subjects, crowding around them, pressing down. Muddy colours seem to seep from the walls into the clothing of his subject, washing the two together until the entire canvas is stained with psychological representation. These women's faces are often obscured, although their shoulders are hunched, defensive. This adds to the sense of emotional intensity, forcing the viewer to translate the mood through the interior.