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Emil Nolde
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Heilige Maria von Ägypten, 1912
- Saint Mary of Egypt
- Oil on canvas
- 87 x 100,5 cm
- Acquired in 1924 for the Museum Folkwang, Essen, confiscated in 1937 and re-acquired in 1950 with the support of the Folkwang-Museumsverein
- Inv. G 217
- © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll
- CommentaryIn the medieval text collection ›Legenda Aurea‹ Jacobus de Voragine, Dominican monk and Archbishop of Genoa, quite openly recounts how Maria Aegyptiaca, later to become a saint, once travelled to Jerusalem. When the boatsman demanded to be paid, she is said to have replied: »I can’t give it to you; but take my body and take your pay with it. So they took me with them and my body paid for my crossing.« According to legend, the Egyptian Maria lived a dissipated life for 17 years before she converted during a pilgrimage to the festival of the finding of the true cross in Jerusalem and then lived for 47 years as a hermit in the desert. Depicted is the moment her body was found by St. Zosimus, with a lion to his side which is said to have helped prepare a grave. Nolde’s paintings with religious themes, characterized by an extremely direct subjectivity, were controversial during his lifetime. Nolde himself wrote in 1909 on this phenomenon: »I followed an irresistible desire to depict deep spiritualism, religion and ardency though without much willingness, knowledge or consideration«.
- Provenance1912 - 1916, Emil Nolde
1916 frühestens - 1925, Dr. Paul Erich Küppers, Hannover
1925 - 06.07.1937, Museum Folkwang, Essen
06.07.1937 - 06.07.1937, für die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst" in München, Beschlagnahmung durch das Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin
1938 - 1939?, Depot Schloss Schönhausen
1939 - 1945, Kauf vom Deutschen Reich, Bernhard A. Böhmer, Güstrow
05.1945 - 1949, Nachlass Böhmer, Wilma Zelck, Rostock (Schwägerin von B. A. Böhmer)
1949 - 1949, Kauf bei Zelck, Kunsthandel Edgar Horstmann, Hamburg
1950 - heute, Kauf bei Horstmann, Hamburg, Museum Folkwang, Essen - Obj_Id: 3,432
- Obj_Internet_S: Highlight
- Obj_Ownership_S (Verantw):Painting, Sculpture, Media Art
- Obj_SpareNField01_N (Verantw): 187
- Obj_Creditline_S: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Gemäldesammlung
- Obj_Title1_S: Heilige Maria von Ägypten
- Obj_Title2_S: Saint Mary of Egypt
- Obj_PartDescription_S (Titelerg):
- Obj_SpareMField01_M (Alle Titel): Heilige Maria von Ägypten Saint Mary of Egypt Heilige Maria von Ägypten
- Obj_Dating_S: 1912
- Jahr von: 1,912
- Jahr bis: 1,912
- Obj_IdentNr_S: G 217
- Obj_IdentNrSort_S: G 0217
- Obj_Classification_S (Objtyp): Painting
- Obj_Crate_S: 87 x 100,5 cm
- Obj_Material_S: Oil on canvas
- Obj_Technique_S:
- Obj_SpareSField01_S (Mat./Tech.): Oil on canvas
- Obj_AccNote_S (Erwerb): Acquired in 1924 for the Museum Folkwang, Essen, confiscated in 1937 and re-acquired in 1950 with the support of the Folkwang-Museumsverein
- Obj_PermanentLocation_S (Standort): Internal Exhibition: E 001, S1, Altbau
- Obj_Condition1_S (Druckerei):
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- Obj_Rights_S: © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll
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Emil Nolde
- Commentary
- Artists
- Provenance
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In the medieval text collection ›Legenda Aurea‹ Jacobus de Voragine, Dominican monk and Archbishop of Genoa, quite openly recounts how Maria Aegyptiaca, later to become a saint, once travelled to Jerusalem. When the boatsman demanded to be paid, she is said to have replied: »I can’t give it to you; but take my body and take your pay with it. So they took me with them and my body paid for my crossing.« According to legend, the Egyptian Maria lived a dissipated life for 17 years before she converted during a pilgrimage to the festival of the finding of the true cross in Jerusalem and then lived for 47 years as a hermit in the desert. Depicted is the moment her body was found by St. Zosimus, with a lion to his side which is said to have helped prepare a grave. Nolde’s paintings with religious themes, characterized by an extremely direct subjectivity, were controversial during his lifetime. Nolde himself wrote in 1909 on this phenomenon: »I followed an irresistible desire to depict deep spiritualism, religion and ardency though without much willingness, knowledge or consideration«.