{"id":15395,"date":"2026-02-22T17:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/?post_type=dt_portfolio&#038;p=15395"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:46:07","slug":"96","status":"publish","type":"dt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/project\/96\/","title":{"rendered":"96"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row type=&#8221;vc_default&#8221; gap=&#8221;35&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Ernst Oppler<\/p>\n<p>Les Sylphides (Behind the Scenes)<\/p>\n<p>circa 1915<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oil on canvas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>German Dance Archive Cologne \/ SK Foundation for Culture<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Ballets Russes company was founded in Paris in 1909 by impresario Sergei Diaghilev (1872\u20131929) with famous ballet stars from the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, such as Tamara Karsavina (1885\u20131978), Vaslav Nijinsky (1889\u20131950), and Anna Pavlova (1881\u20131931), and toured throughout Europe. Ernst Oppler (1867\u20131929)\u2014whose brother Alexander (1869\u20131937), a sculptor, was a close acquaintance of K\u00e4the Kollwitz\u2014was one of the artists of the Berlin Secession for whom the Russian dancers&#8217; performance in Berlin in 1909 was a profound experience. 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