Mir geben sie keine Freude mehr!
To me they give joy no more!
[...], because—to me—they give joy no more!”(1) The whole drama of Emil Nolde culminates in this sentence, by which Tekla Hess, the wife of the deceased Jewish collector Alfred Hess, turned to Nolde to ask him if he wanted to buy back three of his paintings from her collection. The paintings, namely Brüder Kain und Abel (Brothers Cain and Abel), Stilleben mit Reiterfigur (Still Life with Equestrian Figure)and Blaue und lila Blumen (Blue and Purple Flowers),(2) we gather from her words, had given her and her late husband joy.
Now they did no more.
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Mir geben sie keine Freude mehr!
To me they give joy no more!
[...], because—to me—they give joy no more!”(1) The whole drama of Emil Nolde culminates in this sentence, by which Tekla Hess, the wife of the deceased Jewish collector Alfred Hess, turned to Nolde to ask him if he wanted to buy back three of his paintings from her collection. The paintings, namely Brüder Kain und Abel (Brothers Cain and Abel), Stilleben mit Reiterfigur (Still Life with Equestrian Figure)and Blaue und lila Blumen (Blue and Purple Flowers),(2) we gather from her words, had given her and her late husband joy.
Now they did no more.
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