Gabriel von Max
Dein gedenken [In Remembrance of You] (Monkey Viewing a Painting)
circa 1900-1915
oil on wood panel
38,9 x 29,1 cm (15 5/6 x 11 7/16 in.)
signed lower right: "G v Max"
titled upper right: "Dein gedenken"
Exhibition History:
2011 "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:
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, ed., Gabriel von Max (Seattle: Frye Art Museum, 2011), ill. 59, pg. 76
Angela Schürzinger, Gabriel von Max' Affenbilder. Zum Einfluss der durch Charles Darwin und Ernst Haeckel vermittelten Evolutionstheorie, M.A. thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 2012, discussed at pgs. 64-66, ill. no. 22 at pg. 107.
Alain Jaubert, director, La Beauté Animale [The Animal Beauty], documentary film (Ivry sur Seine: Les Poissons Volants, 2012).
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. 11.
References:
For an essay, from a contemporary art perspective, on Gabriel von Max's monkey paintings, in particular those which reference the act of painting itself like this one, see: Ulf Jensen, "Tropic of the Apes: A Dialogue Between Gabriel von Max and Jörg Immendorff," in Jörg Immendorff: For All Beloved in the World (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2018), pp. 49-61.
