Lot Essay
Kerzentänzerinnen is closely related to the 1912 painting of the same name in the Stiftung Ada und Emil Nolde, Seebll
(M. Urban, Emil Nolde, Catalogue raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 1987, no. 512), and is the major representation of the subject of the dance in the woodcut medium.
With its unrestrained manifestation of the Dionysiac power and expression of the dance, Manfred Reuther describes the picture as a high point in Nolde's artistic development. (Manfred Reuther, Der Tanz im Leben und Werk von Emil Nolde, in I. Brugger & M. Reuther ed., Emil Nolde, Vienna, 1995).
The primeval element is given new force through the primitive medium of the woodcut and the more angular approach to the figures.
(M. Urban, Emil Nolde, Catalogue raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 1987, no. 512), and is the major representation of the subject of the dance in the woodcut medium.
With its unrestrained manifestation of the Dionysiac power and expression of the dance, Manfred Reuther describes the picture as a high point in Nolde's artistic development. (Manfred Reuther, Der Tanz im Leben und Werk von Emil Nolde, in I. Brugger & M. Reuther ed., Emil Nolde, Vienna, 1995).
The primeval element is given new force through the primitive medium of the woodcut and the more angular approach to the figures.