Hunter's Room
{{Short description|Painting by Neo Rauch}}
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| title = Hunter's Room
| artist = Neo Rauch
| year = 2007
| medium = Oil on canvas
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| width_metric = 160
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Hunter's Room ({{Langx|de|Jagdzimmer}}) is a 2007 painting by the German artist Neo Rauch. It depicts a group of people carrying crossbows in a room with a map on the back wall and birds hanging from the roof. The painting was part of the exhibition Para which was made for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and shown there in 2007.{{Cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2007/neo-rauch/photo-gallery|title=Neo Rauch at the Met: para: photo gallery|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=2016-10-05}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2007/neo-rauch-at-the-met-para|title=Neo Rauch at the Met: para|date=17 May 2007 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=2016-10-05}}
Reception
Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker wrote about the characters in the painting: "Their poses have the charged solemnity of Balthus, without the erotic crackle. Nothing seems to be at issue for them. (The bird is beyond caring.) But masterly areas of the painting, astonishingly varied in style, captivate."{{Cite magazine|last=Schjeldahl|first=Peter|authorlink=Peter Schjeldahl|date=2007-06-04|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/paintings-for-now|title=Paintings for Now|magazine=The New Yorker|accessdate=2016-10-05}}
Legacy
Marian Brown St. Onge wrote a poem called "In This Hunter's Room" based on this painting. It was written for a 2009 anthology of poems inspired by paintings by Rauch.{{Cite book|year=2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FjgDuVNAvAC&pg=PA183|title=Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography|publisher=McFarland|page=183|isbn=9780786456581}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.eigen-art.com/files/nrauch_para.pdf Press material] for the Para exhibition
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Category:Paintings by Neo Rauch