Gabriel von Max (Prague 1840-1915 Munich)
"Sauer Erfahrungen"
["Bitter Experiences" or "Sour Experiences"]
also known as Äffchen (Affe) mit Zitrone
(Little Monkey with Lemon, or Grapefruit)
circa 1906
oil on canvas
34,5 x 26,5 cm (13 5/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
signed lower left: G. v. Max
inscribed upper right: Sauere [sic] Erfahrungen
Provenance:
1906-1912 Galerie Heinemann, Munich, inventory no. 8074
http://heinemann.gnm.de/en/artwork-7196.htm
1912 -- ? Dr. Henry Smidt (Schmidt?), Düsseldorf (a medical doctor)
Exhibition History:
"Die Kraftprobe - 200 Jahre Kunstakademie München," Haus der Kunst, Munich, May 30-Aug. 31, 2008
"Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul," Frye Art Museum, Seattle, July 9- Oct. 30, 2011
"The Apes & Us: A Century of Representations of Our Closest Relatives," Stanford University, California, Hohbach Hall, Green Library, January 9, 2024 - June 21, 2024
Publication History:
Nikolaus Gerhart, Walter Grasskamp, Florian Matzner, eds., 200 Jahre Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2008), ill. pg. 186.
Aleš Filip and Roman Musil, eds., Gabriel von Max (1840-1915) (Prague: Arbor vitae, 2011), ill. 240, pg. 185.
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, ed., Gabriel von Max (Seattle: Frye Art Museum, 2011), ill. 57, pgs. 74-75.
Karin Althaus, Gabriel von Max, Von ekstatischen Frauen und Affen im Salon, Gemälde zwischen Wahn und Wissenschaft (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2018), ill. 36, pg. 95.
2038, The New Serenity, a video featuring Sauer Erfahrungen that was screened as part of the “Disappearing Berlin” series at Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (Christopher Roth, filmmaker), February 2020. See The New Serenity video on YouTube. Team 2038 is an interdisciplinary creative group representing Germany in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2020. See Elena Ferrari, "2038, The New Serenity: Germany at The Venice Architecture Biennale 2020," Domus magazine, February 19, 2020.
Jessica Riskin and Caroline Winterer, The Apes & Us: A Century of Representations of Our Closest Relatives (Stanford, California: Silicon Valley Archives/Stanford University Libraries, 2024), ill. at pg. 9.
