Lotte (picture)
| Lotte |
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| Christian Schad , 1927/1928 |
| Resin oil paint on wood |
| 66.2 x 54.5 cm |
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Sprengel Museum , Hanover
Link to the picture |
Lotte , occasionally also Die Berlinerin or Lotte; The Berlinerin is a painting by the German painter Christian Schad from 1927/1928. The 66.2 cm × 54.5 cm painting is now hanging in the Sprengel Museum in Hanover .
The paintings
Lotte is sitting in a dance hall that is apparently empty except for her . In the background on the right you can see a lounge with an empty champagne glass on a table with a tablecloth. At the top left of the picture you can see mirror facets, in front of it a piece of a mirror ball whose rays fall on the mirror. Light garlands and the dance floor can also be seen in the mirror facets.
Lotte wears a simple, black costume and an ivory-colored, also simple blouse, the collar of which is tied with a black bow. Her complexion is almost white, her eyes green, her wavy hair dark and cut in a bob . She is lightly made up, in her right ear she wears simple costume jewelry.
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The model, Lotte, was a milliner who worked in a hat shop on Augsburger Strasse in Berlin, on the ground floor of the guesthouse where Schad lived after moving to Berlin until he found a studio.
As with all of his portraits of the time, Schad uses the old master's oil glaze technique for Lotte . He smoothed the top layer so that it became mirror-smooth and no line was visible. Despite the formal traditionality, the picture breaks with the classic individual portrait in favor of a type portrait, an approach typical of the New Objectivity . In the picture Lotte represents the “modern, independent woman of the twenties ”, individual characteristics take a back seat. The flawlessness of the facial features and the rigid immobility of expression stereotype the portrait, much more than that of many other people portrayed by Schad at the time.
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- ↑ a b c Verena Dollenmaier: The eroticism in the work of Christian Schad , 2005, dissertation online .
- ↑ sprengel-museum.de: Sprengel Museum Hannover www.sprengel-museum.de ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed December 26, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen: How in real life? - Reflections on the portrait of the New Objectivity. In: New Objectivity - Magical Realism. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld 1990 (catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld).
