Alfred Zoff
TheFascination of the Sea
A project by Galerie Martin Suppan
monograph • catalogue raisonné • exhibition
Solo Show at the ART & ANTIQUE Art Fair
8.-18. April 2022
Salzburger Residenz
Booth 28
Galerie Martin Suppan
Palais Coburg, Seilerstätte 3c, 1010 Vienna
14 - 23 December 2021 | TUE - FR 12 - 18, SA 11 - 17
January & March 2022 only by appointment (Dr. Claudia Suppan: 06645421468)
“.....I work a lot, but again I realised that it is only a disadvantage to stay too short at a place of study. One becomes a robber of nature and yet does not take the best....." Alfred Zoff, 1912
Departure and homecoming - two opposing and yet complementary longings of human life - shaped the artistic biography of the important Austrian mood impressionist Alfred Zoff to a great extent. Tirelessly travelling, always on the hunt for light, sky, idyllic countryside and surf, the Graz-born artist nevertheless always returned home with countless motifs in his luggage, thus combining his preference for painting in the great outdoors with his innovative work. He completed his nature studies in the studio or used them as sketches for precise, finished, large-format oil paintings that were created for exhibitions and collectors. Thus Zoff's clients for his outstanding marine and coastal paintings included the "Who's Who" of society at the time, entrepreneurs, aristocrats and art collectors, above all Emperor Franz Josef, a great lover of his paintings, whom Zoff was to meet personally in 1895. The Emperor acquired a total of 8 paintings, including the first purchase in 1884, "Pontafel - Große Landschaft mit Staffage", which is still owned by the Universalmuseum Joanneum and is on loan in the current Zoff retrospective.
Thirty years after the first monograph with a catalogue raisonné of Alfred Zoff's works, a new publication with a revised and expanded biography and a new overview of his works, with over 1800 oil paintings and works on paper, was published in November 2021.
The current project is complemented by an extensive retrospective at the Galerie Martin Suppan in the Palais Coburg, with over 100 works from all of the artist's creative periods, the majority of which are for sale and have never before been shown in the trade.
Until today, Zoff's paintings have been exhibited repeatedly, but still far too little, although his work represents an essential part within Austrian landscape painting in general and he marines in particular. The current exhibition now once again provides a detailed insight into Alfred Zoff's life's work and repositions the artist in the 21st century.
"Alfred Zoff's seascapes and coastal landscapes are among the best in Austrian painting. No other painter achieved such mastery and persuasiveness in rendering the various manifestations and movements of the sea as he did." Peter Peer, 2014
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Exhibition video
Installation views
Works
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Alfred Zoff
In der Bucht von Sistiana bei Triest, around 1883
Oil on canvas/cardboard
36,5 x 54,7 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Weißenfelsersee in Oberkrain, 1885
Oil on canvas
80,5 x 104 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Hafen von Sturla, 1887
Oil on canvas
55 x 42 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Alte Mühle in Stainz, around 1901
Oil on canvas
35 x 49 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Sonnenuntergang am Meer, around 1894
Oil on canvas/cardboard
21 x 36 cmsold -
Alfred Zoff
Abend über Nervi, 1896
Oil on canvas
67 x 117 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Blick auf Stein an der Donau, 1899
Oil on canvas
30 x 49 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Segelboot an der italienischen Riviera, around 1905
Oil on canvas
24 x 39 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Riomaggiore (Cinque Terre), around 1905/07
Oil on canvas
39 x 54 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Meeresbrandung, around 1905
Oil on cardboard
42,5 x 35,3 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Weiher in Stainz, around 1905
Oil on canvas
47 x 38 cmsold -
Alfred Zoff
Blühende Obstbäume bei Stainz, around 1910
Oil on canvas
33,5 x 47 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Windmühle bei Vlissingen, 1910
Oil on canvas
36 x 54 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Felsenküste an der italienischen Riviera, around 1912
Oil on canvas
50 x 42 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Spaziergang in Burgau, around 1915
Oil on canvas
23 x 38 cmsold -
Alfred Zoff
Abendstimmung in der Steiermark, around 1919
Oil on canvas
23 x 31 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Dalmatinische Küste, around 1925
Oil on canvas
35 x 47 cm -
Alfred Zoff
Felsige Bucht bei Nervi, around 1889
Oil on canvas
69 x 54 cmsold