Piet Mondrian was 68 years old when he emigrated from Europe to the USA, fleeing war and persecution. In October 1940 the artist arrived in New York on a passenger ship full of emigrants. In the roughly three years before his death in 1944, the Dutch painter produced some of his most famous works there. One of these paintings, "New York City 1" from 1941, has been one of the showpieces of the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection for years. On...
It is a discovery that took 77 years. A painting by Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside-down all this time; discovered this week the officials of the Kunstsammlung museum in Düsseldorf (Germany) where it is currently on display. A major retrospective of the Dutch painter began on Saturday in this establishment, culminating in the presentation of the painting "New York City 1", produced in 1941.However, this painting is exposed upside down; revealed the museum this week. “In...
Curator Susanne Meyer-Büser poses in front of Piet Mondrian's "New York City 1" painting (here upside down), at the Kunstsammlung museum in Dusseldorf, Germany, on October 28, 2022. PETRA WISCHGOLL / REUTERS New York City 1, a 1941 painting by Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian had been hanging the wrong way for 77 years, officials at the Kunstsammlung museum in Dusseldorf, Germany, have discovered, where it is currently on display for a major retrospective . “In a photo from 1944,...
The art historian Susanne Meyer-Büser, curator of the current exhibition "Mondrian. Evolution" at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, has discovered that the work "New York City 1" by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) has been "upside down" for decades " is issued.SZ: Ms. Meyer-Büser, how did you discover that Mondrian is hanging the wrong way round? Meyer-Büser: In a photo from 1944, I saw that the picture, which was exhibited a year later in New York's MoMa, is standing the other...
Watch the video: the picture has probably been hanging upside down for decades.This picture has been hung around like this for 77 years. Experts are now assuming that it should actually be issued the other way around. The curator at the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf, Susanne Meyer-Büser, expressed the good reasons for this assumption on Friday. "First there were only indications and then it was a real suspicion. And if you look at the strips in this picture, they are...
STORY: This picture has been hung around like this for 77 years. Experts are now assuming that it should actually be issued the other way around. The curator at the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf, Susanne Meyer-Büser, expressed the good reasons for this assumption on Friday. "First there were only indications and then it was a real suspicion. And if you look at the strips in this picture, they are adhesive strips, tapes, they cannot have been applied in this condition...
NRW art collection World-famous picture hangs upside down in museums for decades without anyone noticing "New York City 1" by Piet Mondrian - upside down © Rolf Vennenbernd / DPA A picture by the Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian has been hanging in the NRW art collection for more than 40 years. Only now did it become apparent that it had probably been looked at the wrong way the whole time. With modern art, one asks oneself even more often...
