MARR; CARL VON
1858 Milwaukee - 1936 Munich

"The Pace of Time". Oil on canvas. 181 x 186cm. Signed lower left: Carl / Marr / Mnchn. Framed.

Verso:
On the stretcher handwritten "49" as well as label: "No. 49 / Der Schritt der Zeit".

The somewhat confusing title of this large-scale painting; which is completely unknown to the public; came down to us only by a small; handwritten label on the stretcher: "N.O. Der Schritt der Zeit".

Cronus as a winged and dark shape towering over everything; with scythe and hourglass; amongst a journey of naked men and women that are striding towards the end (of their time?). Heaven is so low over the mountain plateau that the angels are able to grab the hourglass of Cronus with their hands. Is time delivered; taken? Still it is a bright summer's day; the heaven is blue; the angels are hovering; floating; coming out of the light; around the track of laden people - in the distance; over a green; cypress-covered hill; is a bright blue iridescent landscape.

The work is not dated. The idea behind the bodies of angels and men falling; sinking; floating (into heavenly spheres) can also be found as a major motive in the paintings "Sinking Day" (Los 926) and "The Painter" (Los 913; the here depicted P. F. Messerschmitt cannot be older than 40 years!) up to a common project; the ceiling fresco "The War in Heaven" in St. Michael in Burgsinn; which is dated to 1907/1908; - therefore the "Pace of Time" was probably made in the late 80s or 90s of the the 19th century as well.

This extraordinary rediscovery is absolutely comparable to the works of the large symbolistic contemporaries like Klinger; B鯿klin; Stuck and Lenbach; up to the paintings of the 90s by Lovis Corinth (who is of the same age).

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