Takka-Takka tanzt

Neuschul, Ernest (1895-1968)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1926

Height:

141.0 cm  (55 1/2 in.)

Width:

103.0 cm  (40 9/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

Five versions of a female figure (Takka-Takka), four of them semi-naked and dancing (two holding a mask); one dressed figure (profile view) is sitting in the lower left and seems to observe or to be absorbed in thoughts. Takka Takka (birth name: Lucie Lindenmannovou), was a female dancer from Java (then part of Dutch East Indies, today Indonesia) who married Ernest Neuschul, the painting's creator, in 1922.

People as subjects

Takka Takka (ca. 1900-1970) (Dancer)

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Seelen, Manja. Das Bild der Frau in Werken deutscher Künstlerinnen und Künstler der neuen Sachlichkeit (Münster: LIT Verlag, 1995) 169.

Ernest Neuschul von der "Neuen Sachlichkeit" zur neuen Unsachlichkeit, Olgemälde von 1926 bis 1966 [Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 14. VI. bis 17. VII. 1966] (Berlin: Haus am Lützowplatz, 1966).


Ernst Neuschul 1895-1968: Neue Sachlichkeit & Social Realism (London: Cambell & Franks (Fine Arts), 1976).


Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery and Julia Collieu, eds. Ernest Neuschul, 1895-1968: A retrospective exhibition of paintings, 29 Oct 1988 - 8 Jan 1989 (Leicester: Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, 1988).

Cohen, Matthew Isaac. "Dancing the subject of 'Java': International modernism and traditional performance, 1899–1952", Indonesia and the Malay World 35/101 (2007) 9-29.

RIdIM record id

6150