London Wedding

Arts of the Americas

c. 1924

Arnold Rönnebeck
American, born Germany, 1885–1947

Born in Germany, the sculptor, printmaker, and photographer Arnold Rönnebeck studied art in Munich and
Paris, where he befriended the American artists Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley. This work, executed in New York after Rönnebeck immigrated to the United States in 1923, combines a traditional subject with a Cubist abstraction of form. The artist also produced a sculpture entitled American Wedding, which may have been intended to form a pair with London Wedding. The photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz supported Rönnebeck’s career and provided him with important connections in the American art world.

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Arnold Rönnebeck
Title: London Wedding
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1924
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Signed: A. RONNEBECK Sc (second step edge) Marked: KUNST-FOUNDRY N.Y. (rear top base)
Dimensions: 35.6 × 15.2 × 15.9 cm (14 × 6 × 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowments
Reference Number: 2004.490

“Art: Three Sculptors Who Have Recently Exhibited Their Work in New York,” Vogue 65, 11 (June 1, 1925), 67, ill., as “London Wedding.”
Reba White Williams, The Weyhe Gallery Between the Wars, 1919–1940 (Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1996), 232, 484, 494 (cast in general).
Annual Report (Art Insitute of Chicago, 2004–2005), 16.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 77. 46.

Weyhe Gallery, New York, Sculpture, Drawings and Lithographs by Arnold Rönnebeck, Apr. 27–May 16, 1925, cat. 11, as London Wedding (cast unknown, possibly AIC).
Western Association Museum Directors (organizers), Exhibition of Paintings, Wood Carvings and Bronzes by Arnold Ronnebeck and Warren Wheelock, shown at Memphis, Tenn., Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Oct. 1–31, 1926, cat. 6, as London Wedding (cast unknown, possibly AIC).
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Robert Laurent and the American Figurative Sculpture: Selections from the John N. Stern Collection and The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Oct. 4–Dec. 11, 1994, cat. 40, fig. 29, as Man and Woman Descending the Stairs (A Wedding Couple).

Weyhe Gallery, New York; sold to John N. Stern, Winnetka, IL, from about 1980 to 2004; sold by Stern through Conner-Rosencranz to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.

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