Gang nach Bethlehem (Schwerer Gang). C. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in lower right. 117 x 128 cm (46 x 50.3 in).
On the decorative frame with metal plate “Prof. Fritz v. Uhde / Gang nach Bethlehem”.

• As one of the most successful and controversial artists of his time, Fritz von Uhde found a new pictorial language for traditional religious scenes.
• In this work, he creates heroic peasant figures in the style of the French realist Jean-François Millet.
• Uhde ingeniously combines realistic and idealistic elements and secular and spiritual motifs.
• A version of the motif was exhibited at Galerie Heinemann in Munich in 1890 and was acquired by the Bavarian State Painting Collections by Prince Regent Luitpold in the same year.

PROVENANCE: Heinrich Glosemeyer Collection (1896-1969), Bremen.
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired in 1960, since then in family ownership).