Ernst Barlach
(Wedel/Holstein 1870–1938 Rostock)
Portrait of Tilla Durieux I, 2012, plaster, edition one of 15, 40.3 x 41.5x 21.5 cm
Provenance:
Tilla Durieux, Berlin
Sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, 1982, lot 42
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg
Private Collection, Northern Germany
Literature:
Volker Probst, Ernst Barlach, catalogue raisonné II: Das plastische Werk, Güstrow 2006, p. 125, no. 177 (with ill.)
Briefe I, no. 401, no. 285, p. 793, p. 806, p. 808
Briefe II, no. 1416
Prosa II, Güstrower Tagebuch, p. 36
Heidrun Loeper, Ina Prescher u.a., Tilla Durieux, der Beruf der Schauspielerin, Berlin 2004, p. 150
Tilla Durieux (1880–1971), was one of the great stage actresses of Berlin modernism. From 1903 she triumphed at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater as Salome, Hedda Gabler and in Wedekind's plays. In 1910 she married the art dealer and publisher Paul Cassirer, a pioneer of Impressionism and early modernism in Germany – and Barlach's dealer since 1907. Their Berlin home became a meeting place for artists, writers and collectors.
With her mutable, highly expressive presence, Durieux became the most portrayed woman of her time, sitting for Renoir, Franz von Stuck, Lovis Corinth and Oskar Kokoschka. In 1912 Barlach worked through several versions of her portrait – a rare portrait within his oeuvre, in which individual likeness yields to a concentrated inner expressiveness. After Cassirer's death in 1926 and her emigration in 1933, Durieux returned to Berlin in 1952, where she remained on stage until late in life.
Specialist: Joëlle Romba
(Wedel/Holstein 1870–1938 Rostock)
Portrait of Tilla Durieux I, 2012, plaster, edition one of 15, 40.3 x 41.5x 21.5 cm
Provenance:
Tilla Durieux, Berlin
Sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, 1982, lot 42
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg
Private Collection, Northern Germany
Literature:
Volker Probst, Ernst Barlach, catalogue raisonné II: Das plastische Werk, Güstrow 2006, p. 125, no. 177 (with ill.)
Briefe I, no. 401, no. 285, p. 793, p. 806, p. 808
Briefe II, no. 1416
Prosa II, Güstrower Tagebuch, p. 36
Heidrun Loeper, Ina Prescher u.a., Tilla Durieux, der Beruf der Schauspielerin, Berlin 2004, p. 150
Tilla Durieux (1880–1971), was one of the great stage actresses of Berlin modernism. From 1903 she triumphed at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater as Salome, Hedda Gabler and in Wedekind's plays. In 1910 she married the art dealer and publisher Paul Cassirer, a pioneer of Impressionism and early modernism in Germany – and Barlach's dealer since 1907. Their Berlin home became a meeting place for artists, writers and collectors.
With her mutable, highly expressive presence, Durieux became the most portrayed woman of her time, sitting for Renoir, Franz von Stuck, Lovis Corinth and Oskar Kokoschka. In 1912 Barlach worked through several versions of her portrait – a rare portrait within his oeuvre, in which individual likeness yields to a concentrated inner expressiveness. After Cassirer's death in 1926 and her emigration in 1933, Durieux returned to Berlin in 1952, where she remained on stage until late in life.
Specialist: Joëlle Romba
