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Painting
Galaxy
Fritz Trautmann, 1882 - 1971
Trautmann, Fritz
United States
1882 - November 11, 1971
Male
35 x 29 1/2 in. (88.9 x 74.9 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1942
1942
1942
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, circle, paintings
Painting
For thirty-three years Fritz Trautmann’s passion for painting inspired his students in MAG’s Creative Workshop. Over his lifetime, he developed an approach to color that was scientific as well as mystical, and in 1942 he painted Galaxy to teach his theories to students. MAG purchased the painting from the artist in 1956. It has been a visitor favorite ever since.
Despite appearances, not a single drop of black paint was used, as Trautmann believed it dampened the natural vibrations of color. Focusing on what he considered the four primary colors rather than the traditional three, Trautmann wrote,
Galaxy symbolizes the great truth that every phenomenon in life involves ALL of life. Each globe of Galaxy is composed of EXACTLY THE SAME ELEMENTS. The entire spectrum wraps itself around each globe with unvarying uniformity. Warm red plays across the field from the left, bright yellow streams down from above, cold blue comes in from the right, and deep violet rises from the bottom.
[Summer 2015]
Memorial Art Gallery
1956.65
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging Complete
3/13/2002
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12/4/2013
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Painting
The Atom
Creation of Matter
Fritz Trautmann, 1882 - 1971
Trautmann, Fritz
United States
1882 - November 11, 1971
Male
35 x 29 1/2 in. (88.9 x 74.9 cm)
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canvas
Oil
Oil
1951
1951
1951
20th century, Abstract, art with Rochester connections, color, paintings, shape
Painting
The architect and designer, Claude Bragdon, introduced his friend Fritz Trautmann to magic squares, in which arranged numbers equal the same amount in the verticals, horizontals and long diagonals. In lines that follow the numbers of a magic square in their natural order (1, 2, 3…), Trautmann observed orbital patterns replicating natural forms. On March 4, 1912 Bragdon wrote in his diary, “Trautmann [has] discovered the spiral law of space.” From this, Trautmann developed his Principal of the Orbit, a philosophical explanation for creation, evolution, and existence:
“I am borne spinning along in the great whirlpool of evolution. It is because I am a child of nature that I am able to conceive only spinning and spiraling things – whirling worlds, universes of nebulae, stars, planets, satellites; universes of molecules, atoms, electrons, protons; universes of embryos, nuclei, chromosomes, genes. By reflection I rotate; my universe turns because I myself turn…my sphere of activity assumes an orbital motion because I am the spinning center of it.”
[Gallery label text, 2010]
back of canvas, upper left
Memorial Art Gallery
1960.55
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
60.55DI#3
Artist's title, signature, date
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Back of canvas, upper left
3/16/2010
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60.55DI#2
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3/16/2010
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Painting
River Garden
Fritz Trautmann, 1882 - 1971
Trautmann, Fritz
United States
1882 - November 11, 1971
Male
31 x 29 3/4 in. (78.7 x 75.6 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1921
1921
1921
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, landscapes, paintings
Painting
In River Garden, we see the two passions of Fritz Trautmann’s life: color and landscape architecture. In a letter to the painting’s donors, Trautmann wrote, “This is a corner of my River Road garden. I’ve made many gardens in my day, but this one gave me the most pleasure. It was built in the ruined foundation of a barn that burned many years ago. As I remember it there were thirteen different levels… It was located about midway between the old River Bend Inn and Balentine bridge [sic] on the east side of the Genesee River.”
Although he lived in the city of Rochester, Trautmann sought rural surroundings in the summer. He stayed in the house attached to this garden in the 1920s; by the early 1930s he purchased and refurbished an old farmhouse and its gardens on Canadice Lake.
[Gallery label text, 2010]
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1974.6
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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6/22/2010
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Painting
Untitled
Fritz Trautmann, 1882 - 1971
Trautmann, Fritz
United States
1882 - November 11, 1971
Male
42 1/2 x 31 1/2 in. (108 x 80 cm)
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Oil
Oil
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Painting
back of stretcher, see photo attached to this Marks recordback of stretcher, bottom
Memorial Art Gallery
1977.108
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
77.108DI#3
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Back - inscription on stretcher bar
3/16/2010
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77.108DI1
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77.108DI#2
digital image
3/16/2010
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