In the Loge

Johannes Greenberg (10.01.1887-29.11.1951)

1940-1944
Oil on canvas
105 x 102 cm

Subjects associated with theatre were very frequent in Greenberg’s creative work. That interest has been explained differently – by interest in theatre, by interest in play, by interest in situations where illusions and actuality do not quite coincide. Greenberg continued to create paintings on theatrical themes during the years of the Second World War at the same time as several works of a tragic tone are also known from the same period: "Homeless People", "Consoler", "Mourners", "Sadness", and so on.
In 1940, one reviewer saw all of Greenberg’s creative work of that time through sadness and powerlessness, directing attention among other things to the fact that the characters in his paintings do not stand but rather sit instead.