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Worn Out
The Funen painter H.A. Brendekilde’s masterpiece “Worn Out” is just the thing for a tragic cover story. A day-labourer has collapsed in his field. Next to him a woman is screaming of helplessness. The picture was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 and also at The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The bourgeois press, on the other hand, considered it melodramatic and ove…
Creator
- Hans A. Brendekilde
Subject
- impoverished people
- poverty
- farmers (people in agriculture)
Type of item
- social realism
- oil paintings (visual works)
Medium
- oil painting (technique)
- canvas (textile material)
- Oil painting
Creator
- Hans A. Brendekilde
Subject
- impoverished people
- poverty
- farmers (people in agriculture)
Type of item
- social realism
- oil paintings (visual works)
Medium
- oil painting (technique)
- canvas (textile material)
- Oil painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- BRANDTS - Museum of Art & Visual Culture
Creation date
- 1889
- 1889
Current location
- BRANDTS
Provenance
- Købt 1894 af kunstneren
Identifier
- DEN_280_018
Extent
- 207 x 270 cm
Year
- 1889
Providing country
- Denmark
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-12-10T15:40:41.331Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-09-05T15:48:18.861Z