Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Ernst Wilhelm Nay 1902 - 1968 Menschen in der Brandung II. 1934. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left. Dated on the reverse of the canvas. 40 x 66 cm (15.7 x 25.9 in). [AW]. • From the important period of “Dune and Fisherman Paintings”—a turning point in Nay’s artistic development. • It bridges his early figurative-expressionist work with his later shift toward abstraction. • During the period when this work was created, Nay sought refuge on the Baltic Sea to escape defamation by the Nazis. • Works from this period are at, among others, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the LWL Museum of Art and Culture in Münster, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. PROVENANCE: Elly Nay, Berlin. Private collection. Private collection, Berlin (since 2002, Bassenge). In the family’s possession ever since. EXHIBITION: Stiftung Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop, on loan (permanent loan from 2015 to 2023). Juwelen der modernen Kunst auf dem Fischland und Darß, Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop, April 1–October 15, 2023, p. 72ff. (with ill. 57). LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 1: 1922–1951, Cologne 1990, CR no. 160 (with color ill., p. 131). - - Gerhard F. Reinz, Orangerie 1979/80. 20 Jahre Galerie Orangerie Köln 1959–1979, Cologne 1979, cat. no. 1251 (with ill.). Elly Nay, Ein strahlendes Weiß. Meine Zeit mit E.W. Nay, Berlin/Cologne 1984, p. 74 (with illustration). Bassenge, Berlin, 80th Auction, Nov. 30, 2002, lot 6537 (with illustration on p. 133, here: “Ball Players on the Beach”). Friedrich Weltzien, E.W. Nay—Figur und Körperbild. Kunst und Kunsttheorie der vierziger Jahre, Berlin 2003, p. 104. Kornelia Röder, Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Die Welle, in: Sommergäste. Von Arp bis Werefkin. Klassische Moderne in Mecklenburg und Pommern, Munich 2011, pp. 268ff. Gloria Köpnick, Eine Reise in die Abstraktion. Ernst Wilhelm Nay und seine Reisen in die Lofoten, in: Künstlerreisen. Fallbeispiele vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Petersberg 2020, pp. 226–232. Katrin Arrieta, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, in: Die Sammlung. Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop 2021, Ahrenshoop 2021, pp. 188ff. Katrin Arrieta, Ästhetische Unbotmäßigkeit im Nationalsozialismus: Louise Rösler, Walter Kröhnke, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, in: Juwelen der modernen Kunst auf dem Fischland und Darß, Rostock 2023, pp. 66–73. Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 15.42 h +/- 20 min.

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