Looking for a German painting from the industrial revolution

May 4, 2018 6:53 PM

I remember it being in some museum in Berlin (likely the Deutches Museum) last May. The painting was of a group of people heartbroken, grieving a dead factory worker. I remember there being a lot of gray in the painting, as well as the wrenched look of suffering in the mourner's faces. I didn't think to take notes of it when I saw it, and all of my google-fu has failed me.

I don't recall the artist, just the century (19th, latter half). Based on those descriptions, could someone know what I'm talking about, and show me where it is online?

posted by Philipschall to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

Best answer: Guh, found it. All my descriptors were wrong. Mods, please delete!
posted by Philipschall at 7:14 PM on May 4, 2018

I’m intrigued! What’s the painting?
posted by Jellybean_Slybun at 7:16 PM on May 4, 2018

Response by poster: This one. It was made by a socialist, during the time in which Germany had appalling labor practices and needless death and suffering were rampant as a result. There's a lot of art that mirrors that sentiment, but I think this one captures it the best.
posted by Philipschall at 7:26 PM on May 4, 2018 [3 favorites]

As a heads up, the Deutsches Museum is in Munich and isn't an art museum. It looks like it might be in the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. (Also not an art museum, but a little more likely. That said, art of the industrial revolution is the sort of art the Deutsches Museum might randomly have.)
posted by hoyland at 5:08 AM on May 5, 2018

Response by poster: Yeah, I knew the mistake I made as soon as I looked up "Deutsches Museum". After two weeks of museum time in Germany, everything just started to blend together.
posted by Philipschall at 5:12 PM on May 6, 2018