Ostseedünen, 1935

Title

Ostseedünen (Original Title)

Title Translation

Dunes of the Baltic Sea

Painter

• Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Period Produced

• 20th century

School

• abstract painting
• figurative painting

Object Type

• painting (artwork)

Physical Description

Oil on canvas

Material

• canvas

Technique

• oil

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Contemporary Art 1945-present

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

© Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler, Köln / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Acquisition

Acquired in 2014 as a gift from private property.

Genre

• abstraction
• landscape

Main Motif

• dune landscape
• colour
• area
• shape
• movement (design element)

Primary

• 0Abstract, Non-representational Art
• 25H1321dunes (sea not visible); in the dunes
• 22C4colours, pigments, and paints
• 49D32line (~ planimetry, geometry)
• 49D43prism ~ stereometry

Secondary

• 49D36circle (~ planimetry, geometry)
• 49D33triangle (~ planimetry, geometry)

Associative

• 61D(BALTIC SEA)geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (BALTIC SEA) (BALTIC SEA)

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