Still Life with Bottles

Emmy Klinker, artist

1891–1969

Still Life with Bottles, early-mid 1900s

Where object was made: Germany

Material/technique: canvas; oil

Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 58.4 x 52.4 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 23 x 20 5/8 in

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Bloch

Accession number: 1984.0001

Not on display

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This still life of vibrantly colored bottles by German Expressionist Emmy Klinker was once owned by artist Albert Bloch and later gifted to the Spencer by his wife. Bloch, who would later become chair of the painting department at KU, was Klinker’s teacher after she moved to Munich in 1916. He was so impressed by her talent that Bloch and Klinker exhibited together in 1919 at the progressive Sturm Gallery in Berlin. This painting exemplifies Klinker’s effervescent use of color and intentionally basic depictions of everyday life. During World War II Klinker’s artwork was banned. Although she lived a full life after WWII, her work has only recently begun to receive attention, with several exhibitions in her native Germany.