Auguste Herbin – Jaune (1946)

Louisiana exhibition poster with the work, Jaune - yellow , (1946), by the French artist, Auguste Herbin, (1882-1960). Herbin is a constructivist and in the 1930s reached the style that became characteristic of his post-war paintings – such as here, Jaune. The starting point is Herbin's own system, where simple geometric shapes and pure colors correspond to specific letters and tones.

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Constructivist art has a special place at Louisiana. The museum's collection of constructivist art was significantly strengthened in 1986 with a generous donation from the American McCrory Collection. A gift that followed in the years after Louisiana exhibited McCrory's collection in 1978 – the only known overview of constructivist art at the time.

Constructivism has its roots in Russia, where the avant-garde wanted to renew the artistic idiom after the Russian Revolution. With their art, the Constructivists joined the new breakthrough that was manifesting itself politically and socially. The artist, like the engineer and the scientist, was supposed to build a new and better world.

Constructivists built their paintings out of geometric shapes, hoping to create an art that could be understood by everyone, regardless of their background. The expression was to be rational, objective and utilitarian. Constructivists distance themselves from any depiction of the seen, the emotional and spontaneous, and instead create their own reality.

In parallel with the development of constructivism in Russia, experiments with the constructivist idiom were taking place in Europe. The Dutch artist group de Stijl and the Bauhaus school in Germany found inspiration in the Russian constructivists.

Dimensions: W: 59.4 x H: 84.1 cm (A1)

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.