Emil Nolde trifft Paula Modersohn-Becker
By: Museen Böttcherstrasse, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum ; Redaktion Frank Schmidt, Verena Borgmann, Jennifer Bode
Contributors: Kunstsammlungen Böttcherstrasse; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
Publisher: Wienand
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Köln
Language: ger
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9783868323634
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; German Art
Description: Flower paintings in overwhelming colours, magnificent landscapes - today it is primarily these motifs which serve as the trademark of the German-Danish artist Emil Nolde. Nonetheless, another motif actually defines the greater part of his work: the human being. In 1900 Nolde went to study in Paris, like so many of his contemporaries; there he met the young, still unmarried artist Paula Becker. During her brief but remarkable life as an artist, she also created countless images of figures: children, couples and nudes. However, the two artists were united by more than a fascination with the same motif. Each sought - in their own individual way - to use simplicity and reduction in order to bring out the essential, the deep and the unique within the human being. For the first time since their meeting in Paris, Emil Nolde and Paula Modersohn-Becker will once again come together. Presented in a direct dialogue, a total of 70 paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints open up surprising new insights into the visual worlds of two of modern art's most important pioneers. Exhibition: Museen Boettcherstrasse: Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Ludwig Roselius Museum, Bremen, Germany (09.10.2016-29.01.2017).
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Museen Böttcherstrasse, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, October 9, 2016-January 29, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Emil Nolde trifft Paula Modersohn Becker / Frank Schmidt; title: Grusswort / Christian Ring; title: "Trieb und Fähigkeit zum Bilden sucht sich einen Weg wie die Pflanzen durchs Gestein empor" Emil Nolde und Paula Modersohn-Becker 1900 in Paris / Astrid Becker; title: Bildteil; title: Gesicht und Maske: Das Porträt als formales Experiment bei Paula Modersohn-Becker und Emil Nolde / Verena Borgmann; title: Bildteil; title: Menschenmaler: Gedanken zur Figurenauffassung bei Paula Modersohn-Becker und Emil Nolde / Frank Schmidt; title: Bildteil; title: Biografien Emil Nolde und Paula Modersohn-Becker; title: Werkliste; title: Impressum/Bildnachweis.