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The photograph of Hugo Biallowons dancing nude in 1915 by Kirchner was used as a source for a sculpture relief of Kirchner's Studio door 1919 and a painting 'Der tang zwischen den Frauen' 1915 (Dance between the woman) cat 443.

Color repro. Kirchner, Berlin p 224

p 105 Although the allegorical meaning here is not yet clear, it apparently revolves about the sexual ambiguity of the central figure.

p 27 Hugo Biallowons was killed in the battle of Verdun 1916

p 26 Professor Gräf (Archaeology) introduced Hugo Biallowons to Kirchner (Gräfs younger friend and protégé) photo p 39 - fig 17

There is a painting of 1914 "Two Friends Conversing" cat 425 that looks like Biallowons sitting on Gräs lap, and another "Gräs and friend" 1914 cat 423; both have heavy homosexual overtones. p 328

p 26 "What Gräs treasured in my work was its frank sensuousness and its

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unbroken development and anatomy... something new which, through the unconfined conception of life there expressed, connected it for him with ambiguity.

p 26 "Through becoming more intimately acquainted with the one to be painted, there simultaneously came .. a psychic deepening. True models in the academic sense I have never had.... Then with the realization of the limits of interaction between human psyches came the withdrawal of one's own person and its resolution into the psyche of the other, for the purpose of more intensive return. The less I was myself physically interested, which started quite early as a consequence of my frame of mind, the better and more frankly could I penetrate into the other and portray her" Kirchner

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