Lisa Smit and Maite Van Dijk
Lisa Smit and Maite van Dijk Edvard Munch, Portrait of Felix Auerbach, 1906 Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 18, no. 1 (Spring 2019) Citation: Lisa Smit and Maite van Dijk, “Edvard Munch, Portrait of Felix Auerbach, 1906,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 18, no. 1 (Spring 2019), https://doi.org/10.29411/ncaw. 2019.18.1.5. Published by: Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art Notes: This PDF is provided for reference purposes only and may not contain all the functionality or features of the original, online publication. License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Creative Commons License. Smit and Dijk: Edvard Munch, Portrait of Felix Auerbach, 1906 Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 18, no. 1 (Spring 2019) Edvard Munch, Portrait of Felix Auerbach, 1906 by Lisa Smit and Maite van Dijk Though not a “new discovery” in the strictest sense, the portrait by Edvard Munch depicting the German physicist Felix Auerbach has not been seen in public for nearly forty years and was therefore one of the lesser-known works by the artist (fig. 1). [1] The portrait was first published in March 1964 in a short article in The Burlington Magazine. [2] The author, Ruth Kisch-Arndt, a niece of Auerbach and then owner of the painting, described the genesis of the portrait and its journey from Jena, Germany, to New York City. More than half a century later, this painting recently entered the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam— representing a significant addition to the museum’s expanding collection of works by Vincent Van Gogh’s contemporaries.
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