Edvard Weie (b. Copenhagen 1879, d. Frederiksberg 1943)
Purchased by SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst
“Nereider og Tritoner” (Nereids and Tritons); “Udkast til Poseidonbilledet” (Draft for the Poseidon painting), 1921. Unsigned. Oil on composite canvases. 110×137 cm.
Literature: Poul Uttenreitter, “Edvard Weies Udstilling i Kunstforeningen”, Berlingske Tidende, 24 October 1925. Literature: Gudrun Krabbe, ”Weie. Glimt og betragtninger” in “Om Gudrun Krabbe. Gudrun Krabbe om Edvard Weie”. Samlet og udgivet af Henning Krabbe. Eget forlag 1977, p. 28. Literature: Ellen Poulsen, “Akvareller og tegninger af Edvard Weie”, Den kongelige Kobberstiksamling, Statens Museum for Kunst 1982, p. 24 pp. Literature: Else Klange, ”Hvad med mytologien”, Cras XLIV 1985, p. 30. Literature: Lennart Gottlieb, “Mennesket, dramaet og maleriet – om Edvard Weies store kompositioner og hans tanker om kunsten og kulturen”, in Bente Skovgaard and Kirsten Strømstad (ed.), “Edvard Weie”, Statens Museum for Kunst og Aarhus Kunstmuseum 1987, p. 44–51, ill. p. 47. Literature: Søren Elbak, ”Omkring Weies ’Udkast til Poseidonbilledet’ (1915) på Kunstmuseet i Sorø”, Hrymfaxe, March 1988, p. 16, ill. p. 17. Literature: Ingeborg Bugge & Juhl Andersen, Henrik, “Edvard Weie og symbolismen. Et spor i malerens skrifter og billeder”, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2001, p. 114–117, ill. p. 106. Literature: Henrik Wivel, “Edvard Weie”, Forlaget Søren Fogtdal 2001, p. 49–54. Literature: Ingeborg Bugge, “Skoven, havet – og havet. En naturvandring med Edvard Weie”, in Aase Bak & Ingeborg Bugge (ed.), “Edvard Weie. Steder og stemninger”, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum & Bornholms Kunstmuseum, 2003, p. 17–18, ill. p. 17. Literature: Lennart Gottlieb, “Modernisme. Maleriets fornyelse / Modernism. Reinventing Painting 1908–1941”, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2012, p. 88–89 / 95, ill. p. 88. Literature: Lennart Gottlieb [ed.], Edvard Weie. “Skrifter om kunst og kultur”, Gyldendal, 2015, p. 16, ill. p. 21.
Exhibited: “Edvard Weie”, Kunstforeningen 1923, cat. no. 22 (?). Exhibited: “Edvard Weie”, Statens Museum for Kunst and Aarhus Kunstmuseum 1987, cat. no. 68. Exhibited: “Edvard Weie. Steder og Stemninger”,Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum and Bornholms Kunstmuseum, 2003, cat. no. 31 Exhibited: “Modernism. Reinventing Painting 1908–1941”, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2012, cat. no. 91. Exhibited: “Edvard Weie. Poesiens Natur”, Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, 2015, no cat. no., ill. p. 39.
Provenance: Acquired by Ellen and Vagn Poulsen at the auction of the estate of Edvard Weie’s widow, Agnes Weie, in 1964 (Edvard Weie malerier akvareller tilhørende boet efter Agnes Weie f. Jensen, Arne Bruun Rasmussen Kunstauktioner, auction no. 169, 23 September 1964, cat. no. 46); hence by descent in the family.
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Paintings & drawings, 5 December 2017