Dutch summary painter’s work was hung the wrong way up for 75 years

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Paul Glynn/ Artwork Reporter

An art work belonging to Dutch summary painter Piet Mondrian has been hung the wrong way up in varied galleries for 75 years.

Regardless of this new discovering by artwork historians, the work New York Metropolis I’ll proceed to be hung the wrong way up to keep away from injury.

The 1941 work was first exhibited on the MoMA in New York in 1945.

Afterwards, it has been exhibited within the metropolis of Düsseldorf within the artwork assortment of the German state of North Rhine-Wesphalia since 1980.

Curator Susanne Meyer-Büser seen the error whereas researching a brand new present for Mondrian on the exhibition, however warned that if it was hung appropriately, it could injury the portray.

New York Metropolis 1 is a taped model of one other work by the identical artist with an identical title, New York Metropolis.

Meyer-Büser advised the Guardian, “The thick aspect ought to be on the high, identical to a darkish sky. Once I confirmed it to different curators, we discovered that the error was very apparent. “The work was most likely hung the wrong way up,” he mentioned.

Within the work of the identical title, New York Metropolis, exhibited on the Pompidou Middle in Paris, the strains are thickened on the high.

Furthermore, in a workshop {photograph} taken days after the artist’s dying, the identical work is seen wanting the opposite method.

Born in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1872, Mordrian is taken into account one of many twentieth century’s best painters and one of many pioneers of the summary, minimalist and expressionist fashion.

Shifting to Paris in 1911, the artist additionally experimented with Cubism, however immediately his title is synonymous with modernism.

His work has had an influence not solely on the artwork world, but in addition on design, structure and trend.