Emil Nolde : colour is life
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Emil Nolde : colour is life
National Galleries of Scotland, 2018
Available at 1 libraries
Note
"Published by the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland to accompany the exhibition Emil Nolde : colour is life from 14 February to 10 June at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, and 14 July to 21 October at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 2018"--T.p. verso
Chronology: p. 122-125
Bibliography: p. 126-129
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was one of the greatest colourists 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 cafes 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 colours 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 Seebull (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 coloured, so-called 'unpainted paintings', works done on small pieces of paper during the Third Reich when Nolde was branded a 'degenerate'.
by "Nielsen BookData"