Yellow Resting Couple, 1947

ArtistErnst Wilhelm Nay, Berlin 1902–1968 Köln

Oil on canvas

(H x W)72 × 102 cm

Status

on display, room 027

About the workA colourful world in motion. Several eyes look out of the picture. Their bodies merge with their surroundings. What kind of creatures might they be? Ernst Wilhelm Nay’s works inspire us to fantasise. He created a system of abstracted forms that are only remotely reminiscent of the figurative. Nay’s works were ostracised by the National Socialists and exhibited at the "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition in 1937. After the end of the war and at the time this work was created, the first German museums began to purchase his paintings.

Accession Acquisition 1947

Provenance1947 entstanden; 1947 angekauft von der Galerie Dr. Werner Rusche, Köln

Inventory number0.1947.4881

Post-War Modernism
Expressionism
Abstraction

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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