Pirouetting Dancer, ca. 1931 – 1932

Blatt: 515 x 360 mm

Physical Description: Watercolour and black brush over pencil on smooth wove paper

Inventory Number: SG 3167

Object Number: SG 3167 Z

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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About the Acquisition

From 1900 onwards, the Frankfurt chemist and industrialist Carl Hagemann (1867‒1940) assembled one of the most important private collections of modern art. It included numerous paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints, especially by members of the artist group “Die Brücke”. After Carl Hagemann died in an accident during the Second World War, the then Städel director Ernst Holzinger arranged for Hagemann’s heirs to evacuate his collection with the museum’s collection. In gratitude, the family donated almost all of the works on paper to the Städel Museum in 1948. Further donations and permanent loans as well as purchases of paintings and watercolours from the Hagemann estate helped to compensate for the losses the museum had suffered in 1937 as part of the Nazi’s “Degenerate Art” campaign. Today, the Hagemann Collection forms the core of the Städel museum’s Expressionist collection.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Pirouetting Dancer

Draughtsman

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Period Produced

20th century

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Watercolour and black brush over pencil on smooth wove paper

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

German

Production Reason

Label at the Time of Manufacture: Signiert unten links (mit der Feder in Schwarz): E L Kirchner

Captions Added Later: Verso Stempel der Städtischen Galerie, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2371c)

Watermark

Nicht geprüft

Work Catalogues

Lenz 1974, 88

Property and Acquisition

Institution

Städel Museum

Departement

Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

Städtische Galerie

Creditline: Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright: Public Domain

Work Content

Motifs and References

Genre

genre

Main Motif

Iconclass

Primary

43C92 one pair dancing; man and woman dancing as a couple
48C8421 male dancer
48C8422 female dancer
43C9 dancing
31AA2753 rotating, twisting (movement of the human body) - AA - female human figure
31A25432 leading someone by the hand or wrist

Research and Discussion

Provenance

Object History: ...

Carl Hagemann (1867-1940), Frankfurt am Main

Nachlass Carl Hagemann, Frankfurt am Main, 1940

verkauft an die Stadt Frankfurt am Main, 1958.

Information

Since 2001, the Städel Museum has systematically been researching the provenance of all objects that were acquired during the National Socialist period, or that changed owners or could have changed owners during those years. The basis for this research is the “Washington Declaration”, also known as the “Washington Conference Principles”, formulated at the 1998 “Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets” and the subsequent “Joint Declaration”.

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