- Emil Nolde covers the complete career of one of the greatest
colorists of the twentieth century, from atmospheric paintings of
immense landscapes to intensely colored works dating from the Third
Reich- Few overviews of Nolde's career in English are currently in
print- Accompanies a traveling exhibition of his work at the National
Gallery of Ireland and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Emil
Nolde (1867-1956) was one of the greatest colorists of the twentieth
century. An artist passionate about his north German home near the
Danish border, with its immense skies, flat, windswept landscapes and
storm-tossed seas, he was equally fascinated by the demi-monde of
Berlin's cafés and cabarets, the busy to and fro of tugboats in the port
of Hamburg and the myriad of peoples and places he saw on his trip to
the South Seas in 1914. Nolde felt strongly about what he painted,
identifying with his subjects in every brushstroke he made, heightening
his colors and simplifying his shapes, so that we, the viewers, can also
experience his emotional response to the world about him. This is what
makes Nolde one of Germany's greatest expressionist artists. This book,
comprising five essays, has over 100 illustrations drawn from the
incomparable collection of the Emil Nolde Foundation in Seebüll (the
artist's former home in north Germany). It covers Nolde's complete
career, from his early atmospheric paintings of his homeland right
through to the intensely colored, so-called 'unpainted paintings', works
done on small pieces of paper during the Third Reich when Nolde was
branded a 'degenerate'.
