Legende (Anbetung der Engel in Grün)

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Künstler*in Adolf Hölzel (1853 Olmütz/ Olomouc – 1934 Stuttgart)

Object typeGemälde
MediumPainting on textile
Dimensions
67 × 85 cm
SignatureMonogr. und dat. unten rechts: A. H. 08
Inventory numberLg 1919
Locations Oberes Belvedere
Credit Line2020 Leihgabe aus Privatsammlung
Adolf Hölzel’s painting Legend is composed of intense hues of green. It shows several groups of figures in front of almost monochrome planes of color. With their stooped poses and wing-like forms, some resemble people in devout prayer or angels. Yet the interest of the painter and art theorist was not so much the Christian narrative as a coherent pictorial composition. To this end, Hölzel harmoniously attuned the arrangement of forms and colors on the canvas. In fact, it is only our culturally influenced way of seeing that leads us to interpret this motif as a religious scene.