Title: Emil Nolde
First published: 1958
Description: The book, its title a reference to a characterization that his artist friend Paul Klee bestowed on Nolde, is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Emil Nolde' at Zentrum Paul Klee and includes, in addition to the illustrations of the works on show, the first ever publication of correspondence between the Nolde and Klee couples. Any encounter with the unknown seemed to always inspire Emil Nolde's artistic work. In his oeuvre there are great number references to the grotesque, the fantastic and the exotic - a fascination he shared with Paul Klee. Grotesques enabled both to critically comment on contemporary events. Fantastic depictions in Nolde's work stem from the serious examination of the unknown and uncanny and, accordingly, take a central position in his work, while in Paul Klee's work, the realm of ghosts, demons and other hybrid beings as an exciting parallel world seems to rather serve a kind of edification. For Nolde as well as for Klee and many of their contemporaries, exotic motifs formed a new inspiring vocabulary of forms, which helped them transcend the restrictions of the European tradition. Exhibition: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland (17.11.2018 - 03.03.2019).
Subjects: Watercolor painting, German, Religion in art, Art collections, Exhibition, Drawing, German, Catalogs, Stiftung Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde, Criticism and interpretation, Couples in art, German Portrait sculpture, German Painting, Nolde, Emil, 1867-1956, Painting, German, German Sculpture, Portrait sculpture, German, Private collections, German Watercolor painting, Oceania in art, Art, Exhibitions, Portraits, Expressionism (Art), Sculpture, German, German Drawing, Art styles: c First World War to 1960, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Painting & paintings, History - General, Art & Art Instruction, Individual Artist, Art / Individual Artist, Painting, exhibitions, Painting, modern, 20th century, In art, Art, exhibitions, Prints, Painters, germany, German Prints, Color in art, Brücke (Artists' group), Flowers in art, Gardens in art, Themes, motives, Christian art and symbolism, Art, german, Still-life painting, German, Exoticism in art, Fischer Fine Art Limited, Correspondence, Grotesque in art, Artists
Places: Germany, Germany (West), Max Sauerlandt
People: Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Emil Nolde (1867-1956,), Emil Nolde (1876-1956)
Time periods: 20th century