Artwork
Stradă
Stradă is a print by Arnold Max Wexler. It dates from 1949 and is held in the collection of the Gavrilă Simion Eco-Museum Research Institute Tulcea - Art Museum.
About this work
Overview
Arnold Max Wexler’s urban landscape, dated around 1949, depicts a cramped city street flanked by deteriorating multi‑storey structures. The composition is held in the Museum of Ethnography, where it forms part of the mid‑twentieth‑century collection of everyday scenes.
Subject & Meaning
The work captures a narrow thoroughfare squeezed between aging façades, their surfaces marked by cracked plaster and peeling paint in subdued ochres, browns and whites. Pedestrians, some burdened with bags, traverse the uneven pavement, suggesting ordinary life persisting amid urban decay.
Technique & Style
Wexler applies paint thickly, allowing brushstrokes to remain visible and lending a tactile, almost sketch‑like quality. The uneven illumination across the façades creates a contrast of bright and shadowed zones, while the impasto surface emphasizes the materiality of the scene.
History & Provenance
Created circa 1949, the piece entered the Museum of Ethnography’s holdings at an unspecified date, joining a broader assemblage of post‑war European artworks that document everyday environments and social conditions of the period.
Artist & collection
Artist
Arnold Max Wexler made drawings and paintings of everyday scenes and landscapes around the 1930s–40s.
Museum
Gavrilă Simion Eco-Museum Research Institute Tulcea - Art Museum
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