Untitled (Schnelligkeit) (Speed)

1914 - 1922 · Print

Can I see it?

Unknown

Where is “Untitled (Schnelligkeit) (Speed)” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source: The museum

On the map Museum page

About the work

With his art the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni above all wanted to express movement. He tried to capture the transmission of light and sound as well as the power and motion of machines and the speed of all modern life. His motorcyclist is first and foremost about dynamism: not only of the vehicle, but also of the environment which is constantly in motion.

Rijksmuseum

Details

Accession number: RP-P-1948-403

What it shows

Motorcycle racing

In the catalog

Prints Modernism 20th century

Sources

Rijksmuseum
Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain

In the life of Umberto Boccioni

The whole life

1912
Decides to take up sculpture
After visiting the Paris studios of Georges Braque, Alexander Archipenko, Constantin Brâncuși, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and, probably, Medardo Rosso, Boccioni decided to take up sculpture.
1912
Futurist exhibition at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune
In 1912 Boccioni exhibited some paintings together with other Italian Futurists at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune.
1912
Futurist exhibition at the Sackville Gallery
In 1912 the Futurists, Boccioni among them, exhibited their work at the Sackville Gallery in London.
11 April 1912
Publishes the “Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture”
The “Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture” was published on 11 April 1912; for Boccioni it was the intellectual and physical launch into sculpture.
16 August 1916
Fatal injury at cavalry training
On 16 August 1916, during a cavalry training exercise, Boccioni was thrown from his horse and trampled. He died the following day in the military hospital in Verona.
17 August 1916
Died