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Pantanz. Page from the Portfolio Grete Wiesenthal. Woodcuts by Erwin Lang, 1910

Leopold Museum,
Vienna © Family Konrad and Liselotte Lang
Woodcut on paper
46.5×35.2 cm

Artists

  • Erwin Lang

    (Vienna 1886–1962 Vienna)

Currently on display at UG1
The painter and graphic artist Erwin Lang (1886–1962) remained connected to dance throughout his life. This may be due to his first wife, the famous dancer Grete Wiesenthal (1885–1970). Lang designed productions especially for her and portrayed her several times, as for example in the work Grete Wiesenthal in a Lanscape. On this sheet the expressive dancer is only covered by a federboa and some loose ribbons. Immersed in movement, she seems to loose herself in it. The display does not allow a localization of the scene. In 1910, in collaboration with Oscar Brie , Lang published this – under the title Pan Dance - as well as other represenatations of his wife in a book and a portfolio Grete Wiesenthal. Woodcuts by Erwin Lang. In the introduction, Brie wrote: “There are not many such as her. A swarm of dilettantes would have to lie at her feet and beg for forgiveness.

AS, 2025

Object data

Artist/author
Title
Pantanz. Page from the Portfolio Grete Wiesenthal. Woodcuts by Erwin Lang
Date
1910
Art movement
Expressionism, Hagenbund
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Woodcut on paper
Dimensions
46.5×35.2 cm
Signature
Signed lower right: Erwin Lang
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 2523
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
Keywords
woman/girlnudethe (nude) human figure (fem.)dancing

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

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woman/girlnudethe (nude) human figure (fem.)dancing

2023/2024 Partial funding for digitization by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport „Kulturerbe digital“ as part of NextGenerationEU.