Girl with red skirt

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Girl with a Red Skirt (Adolf Erbslöh)
Girl with red skirt
Adolf Erbslöh , 1910
Oil on cardboard
115 x 85.5 cm
From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal

Girl with a Red Skirt (also called Woman with a Red Skirt and The Red Skirt ) is the title of an early expressionist painting by the German painter Adolf Erbslöh (1881–1947) from 1910. It has been part of the Wuppertal Von der Heydt Museum's collection since 1949 .

description

The painting is reminiscent of an ancient sculpture. It depicts a young woman in a semi-nude who is pinning her hair behind her head. One strap of her shirt has slipped off, exposing her left breast. The figure is shown in a section up to about knee height. She wears a long red skirt that cuts the entire lower area of ​​the picture. The upper body, face and skirt are brightly colored, whereby the painter provided the drawing with a black border, which enhances the contrast to the background. The woman's face appears very red, as does her right upper arm. The folds of the clothes are only indicated by short brushstrokes, as is the background of the picture, which on the right indicates a shadow of the figure. The pose of the figure with the raised arms allows the artist to depict the woman's breast in the picture diagonal , between the skirt at the bottom left and the raised left arm at the top right. It becomes the central motif of the picture alongside the head tilted downwards. The colourfulness of the face is underlined by strong red tones, so that not only the breast attracts the viewer's eyes.

The painting in portrait format in oil on cardboard with the dimensions 115 × 85.5 cm (according to another source 114 × 86 cm) bears the signature A. Erbslöh on the upper left . 10 . On the back there is an image of a mother with child covered with brown paint and a signature at the top right A. Erbslöh girl . The work bears the inventory number KMV 49-50 / 6 .

Image viewing

In 1909 and 1910 Erbslöh painted several large-format individual figures. The girl in the red skirt is “one of the most important pictures in this series. The picture is pulsed with an intensely saturated color. The incarnate lives from shady shades of color that move far away from the red scale and go into green and even contain a transparent color in the shadow areas ”; a reference to the artist's earlier style of painting in the style of Impressionism , whose “essential achievements are the translucent colored shadows”. The black, which the representatives of Impressionism assigned to the shadows, is reserved here for the contours. You have to look at the picture up close, this “green next to yellow-green, orange, black, blue and pink between arm and chest, in order to fully enjoy the youthful freshness of this painting; the color is applied lively, often as if written, the luminosity is concentrated in the upper body and face. The subject is old, the painting represents the new ”.

Alexej Jawlensky 1909: Girl with Peonies

“Many a dead master would shudder at Erbslöh's powerful female act,” said his artist friend Franz Marc . The picture falls during the period of artistic upheaval, also influenced by Erbslöh's friend Alexej Jawlensky and his powerful colors and his fascination for the human face. The closeness to Jawlensky's picture Girl with Peonies from 1909 cannot be overlooked. Adolf Erbslöh and his painter colleagues in the Neue Künstlervereinigung München , from which the group around the Blauer Reiter later emerged, stimulated each other. They wanted to "make the soul of the beholder vibrate". Erbslöh said: “The artist forms what he imagines. His ideas are the children of his imagination, the source of all creativity. [...] The great artist will always find the form that corresponds to his ideas, the form he needs, and so the form becomes an expression of his inner being, a symbol of his being ”.

Around 1910, the works of the later famous expressionists were "badly panned". There was talk of “nonsense”, of “Stuss” and the artists' “incompetent brains”.

Provenance and exhibitions

Outdoor banner advertising on the facade of the Von der Heydt Museum , Wuppertal, for an Adolf Erbslöh exhibition with an excerpt from the painting Girl with a Red Skirt , 2017

The provenance of the painting is documented as follows: The Wuppertal Art and Museum Association acquired the work in 1949 from the then Berlin gallery Franz .

literature

  • Adolf Erbslöh: Fantasy and Form. In: The art. Bruckmann, Munich April 1929, OCLC 10808719 .
  • Hans Wille: Adolf Erbslöh 1881–1947. With a catalog of the paintings. Art and Museum Association, Wuppertal 1967, OCLC 603696518 .
  • Hans Wille: Adolf Erbslöh. Monobiography. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1982, ISBN 3-7647-0339-3 .
  • Annegret Hoberg , Helmut Friedel (Ed.): The Blue Rider and the New Image. From the Neue Künstlervereinigung München to the Blauer Reiter. Exhibition catalog, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Prestel, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2065-3 .
  • Brigitte Salmen, Felix Billeter: Adolf Erbslöh 1881–1947, catalog raisonné of the paintings . Ed .: Karl & Faber, Hirmer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7774-2587-0 , page 82 f.
  • Beate Eickhoff: The nude in modern art . In: Beate Eickhoff and Gerhard Finckh (eds.): Adolf Erbslöh: Der Avantgardemacher . Exhibition catalog. From the Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 2017, page 144 f.

Web links

Commons : Girl in a Red Skirt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Girl with Red Skirt on the-athenaeum.org
  2. ↑ a b c Claudia Kuhland: Adolf Erbslöh - girl with a red skirt. In: Meisterwerke, WESTART 2010.
  3. ^ Hans Wille: Adolf Erbslöh 1881–1947 , 1967 and Adolf Erbslöh , 1982
  4. ↑ Erika Günther: Guide to paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries . From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . Wuppertal 1996, ISBN 3-89202-031-0 , p. 70 .
  5. ↑ a b Hans Wille: Adolf Erbslöh. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1982, pp. 21-22.
  6. ↑ Hans Günther Wachtmann: To Erbslöhs paintings in the Von der Heydt Museum. In: Von der Heydt-Museum (Ed.): Adolf Erbslöh. Painting 1903–1945. Exhibition catalog. Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-89202-017-5 , p. 45 f.
  7. ↑ a b Annegret Hoberg, Helmut Friedel (ed.): The Blue Rider and the New Image. 1999, p. 37.
  8. ↑ This picture was bought by Adolf Erbslöh by the way. Erbslöh later donated the picture to the Wuppertal Art and Museum Association. In the thirties and forties of the 20th century it was hidden in Erbslöh's house in Irschenhausen . After the war, Erbslöh's widow returned the picture to Wuppertal. Today it is in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal.
  9. ↑ Adolf Erbslöh: Fantasy and Form. 1929, p. 20.
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Uta Laxner-Gerlach: The paintings of the 20th century . Ed .: Von der Heydt-Museum. W. Brockhaus KG, Wuppertal 1981, OCLC 902357789 , p. 60 (museum catalog).
  11. ↑ Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition - L'expressionnisme en Allemagne et en France. De van Gogh à Kandinsky. ( PDF, pp. 77, 87 and 277. ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mbam.qc.ca
  12. ^ Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.): Expressionism in Germany and France. From Matisse to the Blue Rider. Exhibition catalog. Prestel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-5339-5 , p. 290
  13. ↑ Hans Günther Wachtmann, 1992
  14. ↑ A huge success for expressionists from Wuppertal in Rio de Janeiro. on lokalseiten.de
  15. ↑ Franz Becker: The Expressionist Impulse Masterpieces from Wuppertal's Large Private Collections From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal in Musenblätter, February 22, 2008
  16. ^ Les oeuvres de l'exposition au musée Marmottan-Monet de Paris à l'expo "Fauves et Expressionnistes". on van-gogh.fr
  17. ↑ Girl with a red skirt on Musenblätter.de
  18. ^ Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.): Expressionism in Germany and France. From Matisse to the Blue Rider. Exhibition catalog. Prestel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-5339-5 , pages 166, 265 and 290
  19. ^ VdH-Museum: Adolf Erbslöh. The avant-garde maker [1] , accessed on October 3, 2019