Oil on canvas
With an exhibition's label on the stretcher, there inscribed by the artist. 75,3 x 59,5 cm (29,6 x 23,4 in)

The work is recorded at the Max-Ackermann-Archiv, Bietigheim-Bissingen, under the temporary catalogue raisonné number "ACK 3136".

PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

EXHIBITION: Max Ackermann, exhib.cat. Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, n.d., no. 1 (with the label on the stretcher).

In 1930, Max Ackermann spent the autumn months in the Ticino, where he also met the painter Marianne von Werefkin and exchanged ideas on art with her. Ackermann painted a great deal outdoors in Ascona, Ronco and Brissago and produced numerous landscapes, many of which were exhibited the following year through the agency of the gallery owner Fritz C. Valentien. Valentien wrote on Ackermann: “The attitude to his painting is more complex because, with the remorselessness of all such developments as well as the inhibitions of the day, nowadays all painting is judged by the degree to which it is casual. [..] That it in Ackermann elicits ‘moods’ in certain color circles, depending on the inspiration of the landscape or situation represented, is a result of his experiments in abstraction” (quoted in: Max Ackermann 1887-1975. Zum 100. Geburtstag, Exhib. cat. Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst/Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart 1987/88, p. 182). [NB].