About the Artwork
The late nineteenth century saw the rapid growth and expansion of universities and colleges in Europe and America. Brandes was a charismatic, popular professor in Copenhagen, giving controversial lectures on the contemporary symbolist movement in literature. Internationally famous, he was invited to lecture at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in the 1890s. The portrait shows Brandes elevated on his podium under bright lights with a dramatically simple realism.
Georg Brandes at the University in Copenhagen
1889
Harald Slott-Møller
1864-1937
Danish
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 36 1/4 × 31 7/8 inches (92.1 × 81 cm) Framed: 41 3/8 × 37 × 2 1/8 inches (105.1 × 94 × 5.4 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
1991.1
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Markings
Signed, lower left: Harald Slott-Moller
Provenance
March 20, 1969, purchased by Rasmussen (Copenhagen, Denmark) lot 187;until 1990, private collection (Europe);
November 29, 1990, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 1;
1991-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Harald Slott-Møller, Georg Brandes at the University in Copenhagen, 1889, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1991.1.
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