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  • NEW WORLDS – Doppelbildnis

  • More direct than the widespread genre of the portrait, the double portrait reveals the relationships between people. Emil Nolde portrays two sisters; Rudolf Belling lets Cain and Abel struggle. Portraits expose emotions, thoughts, and behavior—love and affection, but also conflict and alienation. The depictions range from the nervous first meeting or the lovers’ sexual act to the spirit of frolic and play or the struggle with death. Joy and sadness, elation and pain as well as affection and contempt find expression in very different ways. But the intimacy that is portrayed is sometimes also deceptive. Glances are cut short; they are often directed at the viewer and thus make us into observers and those who are observed at the same time. The counterpart depicted in the double portrait also enables a form of self-recognition thanks to the other.
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Works
Quappi und Inder
Mensch (Kain und Abel)
Erotik
  • Belling, Rudolf / Bildgießerei Hermann Noack

  • Erotik, 1920

Doppelstatue des ›Vorstehers der Goldbergwerke des Amun‹ Wersu und seiner Gemahlin Sat-Ra
Liegendes Paar
Doppelbildnis Oskar Kokoschka und Alma Mahler
Polnische Familie
L. u. I., Die Schwestern
Selbstdarstellungen, aus der Serie: Autoporträts
Selbstdarstellungen, aus der Serie: Autoporträts
Selbstdarstellungen, aus der Serie: Autoporträts
Gemeindeschwestern Westerwald ca. 1920
o.T. (Zwillinge)