Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right. 50.5 x 60.5 cm.
• Expressionism at its best: intense contrasts, free composition, pronounced forms and erotic energy. • One of the rare sensual couple portraits from Nolde's most fruitful period. • The motif is related to “Tolles Weib” from 1919, Nolde Foundation, Seebüll. • Exhibited as early as 1925 and 1928, as well as part of the first major commemorative exhibition in 1957, one year after the death of Emil Nolde. • In 1920, the year the work was created, Ludwig Justi dedicated an entire exhibition room to the artist at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. The work is mentioned on the artist's handwritten list from 1930 as "1920 Junges Paar". LITERATURE: Martin Urban, Emil Nolde. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II (1915-1951), Munich 1990, no. 925 (illustrated). - - Briefe von Emil Nolde an Rudolf Probst, February 19 and April 3, 1925 (copies in the archive of the Nolde Foundation, Seebüll). Review of the Nolde exhibition at Fides, 1925, in: Der Cicerone: Halbmonatsschrift für die Interessen des Kunstforschers & Sammlers, 17.1925, issue 5, p. 267. Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, Emil Nolde, Junge Kunst, vol. 53, Leipzig/Berlin 1929, ill. 28. Stefan Koldehoff, Die Bilder sind unter uns. Das Geschäft mit der NS-Raubkunst und der Fall Gurlitt. Berlin 2009, pp. 70f.
Neue Kunst Fides, Dresden, Feb.-March 1925, No. 2 (illustrated) Ausstellung aus Privatbesitz, Städtisches Museum, Chemnitz, 1928, no. 119 (illustrated). Emil Nolde, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Oct.-Nov. 1948, no. 14. Expressionisme, van Gogh tot Picasso, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1949, no. 114. Emil Nolde - Gedächtnisausstellung (Memorial Exhibition), Kunstverein Hamburg, April 27 - June 16, 1957, Museum Folkwang, Essen, June 29 - September 1, 1957, Haus der Kunst, Munich, September 24 - December 1, 1957, no. 121 (here erroneously dated 1918, illustrated)
Georg and Margarethe Mecklenburg Collection, Chemnitz (1925 to ca. 1940/41). Edgar Horstmann, Hamburg. Galerie Grosshennig, Düsseldorf (1957). Kurt Forberg Collection, Düsseldorf. Udo and Mania Bey Collection, Sorengo, Switzerland (1967). Private collection (gifted from the above; amicable agreement between the above and the heirs of Margarethe Mecklenburg in 2017). The work is sold subject to no pending restitution claims. The offer is made in an amicable agreement with the heirs of Margarethe Mecklenburg on the basis of a fair and just solution
Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de
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Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right. 50.5 x 60.5 cm.
• Expressionism at its best: intense contrasts, free composition, pronounced forms and erotic energy. • One of the rare sensual couple portraits from Nolde's most fruitful period. • The motif is related to “Tolles Weib” from 1919, Nolde Foundation, Seebüll. • Exhibited as early as 1925 and 1928, as well as part of the first major commemorative exhibition in 1957, one year after the death of Emil Nolde. • In 1920, the year the work was created, Ludwig Justi dedicated an entire exhibition room to the artist at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin. The work is mentioned on the artist's handwritten list from 1930 as "1920 Junges Paar". LITERATURE: Martin Urban, Emil Nolde. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. II (1915-1951), Munich 1990, no. 925 (illustrated). - - Briefe von Emil Nolde an Rudolf Probst, February 19 and April 3, 1925 (copies in the archive of the Nolde Foundation, Seebüll). Review of the Nolde exhibition at Fides, 1925, in: Der Cicerone: Halbmonatsschrift für die Interessen des Kunstforschers & Sammlers, 17.1925, issue 5, p. 267. Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, Emil Nolde, Junge Kunst, vol. 53, Leipzig/Berlin 1929, ill. 28. Stefan Koldehoff, Die Bilder sind unter uns. Das Geschäft mit der NS-Raubkunst und der Fall Gurlitt. Berlin 2009, pp. 70f.
Neue Kunst Fides, Dresden, Feb.-March 1925, No. 2 (illustrated) Ausstellung aus Privatbesitz, Städtisches Museum, Chemnitz, 1928, no. 119 (illustrated). Emil Nolde, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Oct.-Nov. 1948, no. 14. Expressionisme, van Gogh tot Picasso, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1949, no. 114. Emil Nolde - Gedächtnisausstellung (Memorial Exhibition), Kunstverein Hamburg, April 27 - June 16, 1957, Museum Folkwang, Essen, June 29 - September 1, 1957, Haus der Kunst, Munich, September 24 - December 1, 1957, no. 121 (here erroneously dated 1918, illustrated)
Georg and Margarethe Mecklenburg Collection, Chemnitz (1925 to ca. 1940/41). Edgar Horstmann, Hamburg. Galerie Grosshennig, Düsseldorf (1957). Kurt Forberg Collection, Düsseldorf. Udo and Mania Bey Collection, Sorengo, Switzerland (1967). Private collection (gifted from the above; amicable agreement between the above and the heirs of Margarethe Mecklenburg in 2017). The work is sold subject to no pending restitution claims. The offer is made in an amicable agreement with the heirs of Margarethe Mecklenburg on the basis of a fair and just solution
Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de
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